Chapter V PROCESS FEES

The High Court shall make rules as to the following matters :-

1. (i) the fees chargeable for serving and executing processes issued by such Court in its appellate jurisdiction, and by the other Civil and Revenue Court established within the local limits of such jurisdiction ;
2. (ii) the fees chargeable for serving and executing processes issued by the Criminal Courts, established within such limits in the case of offences other than offences for which police officers may arrest without a warrant; and
3. (iii) the remuneration of the peons and all other persons employed by leave of a Court in the service or execution of processes. The High Court may from time to time alter and add to the rules so made. Confirmation and publication of rules.- All such rules, alterations and additions shall, after being confirmed by the State Government, be published in the Official Gazette, and shall thereupon have the force of law.

A table in the English and regional languages, showing the fees chargeable for such service and execution, shall be exposed to view in a conspicuous part of each Court.

Subject to rules to be made by the High Court and approved by the State Government, every District Judge, the Principal Judge of the Bombay City Civil Court and every Magistrate of a District shall fix, and may from time to time alter the number of peons necessary to be employed for the service and execution of processes issued out of his Court, and each of the Courts subordinate thereto, Number of peons in Mofussil Small Causes Courts.- and for the purposes of this section, every Court of Small Causes established under the Provincial Small Cause Courts Act, 1887 (IX of 1887), shall be deemed to be subordinate to the Court of the District Judge.

Subject to rules to be framed by the Chief Controlling Revenue Authority and approved by the State Government, every officer performing the functions of a Collector of a District shall fix, and may from time to time alter, the number of peons necessary to be employed for the service and execution of processes issued out of his Court or the Courts subordinate to him.