(2)For that purpose every such person shall examine every instrument so chargeable and so produced or coming before him, in order to ascertain whether it is stamped with a stamp of the value and description required by the law in force in India, when such instrument was executed, or first executed:Provided that -(a)nothing herein contained shall be deemed to require any Magistrate, or Judge of a Criminal Court to examine or impound if he does hot think fit so to do, any instrument coming before him in the course of any proceeding other than a proceeding under Sections 125 to 128 and Sections 145 to 148 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (Act No. 2 of 1974).(b)in the case of a Judge of a High Court, the duty of examining and impounding any instrument under this section may be delegated to such officer as the Court appoints in this behalf.
