37. Every fine imposed by this act shall be paid to the Minister of Revenue for the uses of Québec, and shall be recovered before any court having competent jurisdiction to the amount, at the instance of the Deputy Minister of Revenue; and the production of any such writ, rule, order, matter or process unstamped, or stamped for an insufficient sum, or the stamp of which is not properly and sufficiently obliterated and cancelled, or the proof of any such writ, rule, order, matter or process having been unstamped or not sufficiently stamped at the time it was so issued or received or served or executed as aforesaid, or of the stamp not having been properly or sufficiently obliterated and cancelled, shall be sufficient primafacie evidence of such writ, rule, order, matter or process having been knowingly or wilfully so issued or received or served or executed without having been first stamped, or without the stamp having been properly and sufficiently obliterated and cancelled.
R. S. 1964, c. 80, s. 39.