29. No certificate of the registration of any deed, instrument or document, or of any search, on which deed, instrument, document or search a duty, payable by stamps, is then imposed, shall be received in any court as evidence, or be of any effect, until the proper stamp for the payment of such duty is attached to such certificate or impressed thereon, whether such certificate be written on such deed, instrument or document, or given separately; saving always the power vested in the proper court, judge or officer, by section 23, to allow stamps to be affixed on the application of any party.
R. S. 1964, c. 80, s. 30.