Exemption of certain documents.

72. Exemption of certain documents.— Nothing contained in this Act shall render the following documents chargeable with any fee: — (i) Mukhtarnama, vakalatnama or other written authority to institute or defend a suit when executed by a member of any of the Armed Forces of the Union not in civil employment; (ii) memorandum of appearance filed by advocates or pleaders when appearing for persons proceeded against in criminal cases; (iii) plaints and other documents in suits filed in village courts; (iv) plaints in suits before Collectors under Madras Regulation XII of 1816; (v) application or petition to a Collector or other Officer making a settlement of land revenue, or to the Board of Revenue relating to matters connected with the assessment of land, or with the ascertainment of rights thereto or interest therein, if presented previous to the final confirmation of such settlement; 1. Added by Act 6 of 1991. (vi) application relating to a supply for irrigation of water belonging to Government; (vii) application for leave to extend cultivation or to relinquish land, when presented to an officer of land revenue by a person holding, under a direct engagement with Government, land of which revenue is settled but not permanently; (viii) application for service of notice of relinquishment of land or of enhancement of rent; (ix) written authority to an agent to distrain; (x) first application (other than a petition containing a criminal charge of 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; (xi) bail bonds in criminal cases other than bail bonds in village courts, recognizances to prosecute or give evidence and recognizances for personal appearance or otherwise; (xii) petition, application, charge or information respecting any offence when presented, made or laid to or before a police officer, or to or before the heads of villages or the village police; (xiii) petition by a prisoner or other person in duress or under restraint or any Court or its officer; (xiv) complaint of a public servant as defined in the Indian Penal Code (Central Act XLV of 1860); (xv) application for permission to cut timber in Government forests or otherwise relating to such forests not being applications from forest contractors for extending the period of their leases; . (xvi) application for the payment of money due by the Government to the applicant, 1[including an application] for refund of lapsed deposit made six months after the date on which the amount lapsed to the Government; (xvii) petition of appeal against any municipal tax; (xviii) application for compensation under any law, for the time being in force relating to the acquisition of property for public purposes; (xix) petition under section 48 of the Indian Christian Marriage Act, 1872 (Central Act XV of 1872); (xx) petition or appeal by a Government servant or a servant of the Court of Wards when presented to any superior officer or Government against orders of dismissal, removal, reduction in rank or suspension; copies of such orders filed with such appeals, and applications for obtaining such copies; (xxi) applications for refund of court-fees under the provisions of this Act; (xxii) applications presented to Munsiffs in non-appealable cases; (xxiii) requisitions made by the Government for copies of judgments and decrees or orders or records in suits or proceedings. 1[(xxiv) petition in a suit under the Native Converts Marriage Dissolution Act, 1866 (Central Act 21 of 1866); (xxv) petition, plaint or memorandum of appeal when presented to a court under the Dissolution of Muslim Marriages Act, 1939 (Central Act 8 of 1939) ; (xxvi) petition under the Indian Divorce Act, 1869 (Central Act 4 of 1869) excluding petition under section 44 of that Act, and every memorandum of appeal under section 55 of that Act; (xxvii) plaint or memorandum of appeal under the Parsi Marriage and Divorce Act, 1936 (Central Act 3 of 1936) or a counter claim made under section 37 of that Act; (xxviii) petition under sections 22, 23, 27 or 28 of the Special Marriage Act, 1954 (Central Act 43 of 1954); (xxix) petition under sections 9, 10 or 13 of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 (Central Act 25 of 1955); (xxx) undertaking under section 49 of the Indian Divorce Act, 1869 (Central Act 4 of 1869) ; 2[ (xxxi) *****]; (xxxii) application for leave to sue as a pauper; (xxxiii) application for leave to appeal as a pauper.]