Exemption of certain documents.

Nothing contained in this Act shall render the following documents chargeable with any fee:—

1. (i) Power-of-attorney to institute or defend a suit when executed by a member of any of the Armed Forces of the Union not in civil employment.
2. (ii) Application for certified copies of documents or of any other purpose in the

course of a criminal proceeding presented by or on behalf of the Government to a criminal Court.

1. (iii) Written statements called for by the Court after the first hearing of a suit.
2. (iv) Application or petition to a Collector

or other officer making a settlement of land-

revenue, or to a Board of Revenue, or a

Commissioner of Revenue, relating to matters connected with the assessment of land or the ascertainment of rights thereto or interests therein, if presented, previous to the final confirmation of such settlement.

1. (v) Application relating to a supply for irrigation of water belonging to Government.
2. (vi) Application for leave to extend cultivation, or to relinquish land, when presented to an officer of land-revenue by a person holding, under direct engagement with Government, land of which the revenue is settled, but not permanently.
3. (vii) Application for service of notice of relinquishment of land or of enhancement of rent.
4. (viii) Written authority to an agent to distrain.
5. (ix) First application (other than a petition containing a criminal charge or information) for the summons of a witness or other person

to attend either to give evidence or to produce a document or in respect of the production or filing of an exhibit not being an affidavit made for the immediate purpose of being produced in Court.

1. (x) Bail-bonds in criminal cases, recognizances to prosecute or give evidence, and recognizances for personal appearance or otherwise.
2. (xi) Petition by a prisoner, or other person in duress or under restraint of any Court or its officers.
3. (xii) Complaint of a public servant as defined in the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (Central Act No. 45 of 2023), a municipal officer, or an officer or servant of a Railway Company.
4. (xiii) Application for the payment of money due by Government to the applicant.
5. (xiv) Applications for compensation under any law for the time being in force relating to the acquisition of property for public purposes.