section II
Schedule II
The Court-Fees Act, 1977Fixed Fees 1. Application or petition, or when presented to any officer of land-revenue by any person holding temporarily settled land; under direct engagement with Government, and when the subject-matter of the application or petition relates exclusively to such engagement;- Re. 0.15 (a) .-When presented to any Sub-Registrar or any officer of the Customs or Excise Department or to any Magistrate by any person having dealings with the Government; and when the subject-matter of such application relates exclusively to those dealings; Re. 0.15 or when presented to any Municipal Commissioner under any Act for the time being in force for the conservancy or improvement of any place, if the application or petition relates solely to such conservancy or improvement; or when presented to any Civil Court other than a principal Civil Court of original jurisdiction, or to any Court of Small Causes or to a Collector or other officer of revenue in relation to any suit or case in which the amount or value of the subject-matter is less than fifty rupees; Re. 0.15 or when presented to any Civil, Criminal or Revenue Court or Registration Office for the purpose of obtaining a copy or translation of any judgment, decree or order passed by such Court or of any other document on record in such Court or Office. Re. 0.15 (b) .-When containing a complaint or charge of any offence other than an offence for which Police Officers may, under the Criminal Procedure Code, arrest without warrant, and presented to any Criminal Court: Re. 1.00 or when presented to a Civil, Criminal or Revenue Court or to a Registrar under the Registration Act or to a Collector, or any Revenue Officer having jurisdiction equal or subordinate to a Collector, or to any Magistrate or the head of any Department other than a Minister in his executive capacity, and not otherwise provided for by this Act: Re. 1.00 or to deposit in Court revenue or rent: Re. 1.00 or for determination by a Court of the amount of compensation to be paid by a landlord to his tenant. Re. 2.00 (c) .-When presented to a Minister in his executive capacity and not otherwise provided for by this Act. Re. 2.00 (4) .-When presented to the High Court- (i) Under the Companies Act, 1977, for winding up a Company. (ii) Under the same Act for taking some other judicial action. (iii) To all other cases, otherwise provided for by this Acts; Exemptions- (e) .-When presented or addressed to the Government and not otherwise provided for by this Act. 1. Petitions from widows, orphans and military pensioners when submitted to the Government or Council of Ministers. 2. Applications for employment in Government service when sent in response to Government advertisements. 3. Petitions from pensioners with regard to their pensions. 4. Applications by Civil and Military Officers regarding questions arising out of the service such as applications for grant of increment, transfer, leave etc. 5. Applications for scholarships. 6. Applications for grant-in-aid to schools, Maktabs and Pathshalas. 7. Applications for grant of loans from provident fund or for house building or purchase of motor-car. 8. Petitions from widows and orphans for grant of compassionate allowance. 9. Applications for grant of such contracts and licences but not applications for tiny concessions or remissions. 10. Applications from the public bodies for repairs in drains, roads, ghats, bathing places or stand pipes or for provision of light and water whether in towns or in rural areas. 11. Applications from Muafidars or Muharrardars for payment or settlement of their pending claims. 12. Applications for registration of arms. 13. Applications made by Officer-in-charge Kashmir Willows to the Customs Officer for purposes of securing attestation of import and export certificate. 1-A. Application to any Civil Court that records may be called for from another Court. When the Court grants the application and is of opinion that the transmission involves the use of post. 2. Application for leave to sue as a pauper. 3. Application for leave to appeal as a pauper. (a) -When presented to a lower Court. (b) When presented to a District Court or the High Court or the Revenue Minister. 5. Plaint or memorandum of appeal in a suit to establish or disprove a right of occupancy. 6. Bail-bond or other instrument of obligation given in the absence of any other provision in this Act. 4. Omitted. 7. Omitted. 8. Omitted. 9. Omitted. 10. Mukhtarnama or Vakalatnama of any paper signed by an Advocate signifying or intimating that he is retained for a party. When presented for the conduct of any one case. (a) -to the Government, the High Court or a Minister. (b) -to the District or Sessions Court. (c) -to any other Civil, Criminal or Revenue Court or Revenue Office. 11. Memorandum of appeal when the appeal is not from a decree or an order having the force of a decree and is presented. (a) -to the Government or the High Court or a Minister. (b) -to the District or Sessions Court. (c) -to any other Civil or Revenue Court or Revenue Office. 17. Plaint or memorandum of appeal in each of the following suits:- (I) (a) to alter or set aside a summary decision or order of a Civil Court; (b) To alter or set aside a summary decision or order of a Revenue Court not otherwise provided for. (ii) to alter or cancel any entry in a register of the names of proprietors of revenue paying estates; (iii) to obtain a declaratory decree where no consequential relief is prayed; (iv) to set aside an award; (v) to set aside an adoption; (vi) every other suit where it is not possible to estimate at a money value the subject matter in dispute and which is not otherwise provided for by this Act; (vii) an appeal from a preliminary decree passed under rules 13, 15, 16 or 18 (b) of Order XX of the Code of Civil Procedure. 12. Omitted. 13. Omitted. 14. Omitted. 15. Omitted. 16. Omitted. 20. Omitted. 18. Application under Schedule II, Para 17, of the Code of Civil Procedure. Rs. 12.50 19. Agreement in writing stating a question for the opinion of the Court under the Code of Civil Procedure, 1977. Rs. 6.50 21. Plaint or memorandum of appeal in a suit for restitution of conjugal rights or custody of a wife. Rs. 25.00 22. Plaint or memorandum of appeal in a suit by a reversioner under the Customary Law for a declaration in respect of an alienation of ancestral land.
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