Court-fees Act,1870
Act No : 7
Section : Fees on documents filed, etc., in High Courts, in their extraordinary jurisdiction
4. Fees on documents filed, etc., in High Courts, in their extraordinary jurisdiction: No document of any of the kinds specified in the first or second schedule to this Act annexed, as chargeable with fees, shall be filed, exhibited or recorded in, or shall be received or furnished by, any of the said High Courts in any case coming before such Court in the exercise of its extraordinary original civil jurisdiction; or in the exercise of its extraordinary original criminal jurisdiction; in their appellate jurisdiction: or in the exercise of its jurisdiction as regards appeals from the 6*[judgments (other than judgments passed in the exercise of the ----------------------------------------- 1. The original s. 2 relating to repeal of enactments was rep. by the Repealing Act, 1870 (14 of 1870). A section defining "Chief Controlling Revenue-authority" was added by s. 2 of the Court-fees (Amendment) Act, 1901 (10 of 1901), and was slightly amended by the Repealing and Amending Act, 1917 (24 of 1917). For the definition of the "Chief Controlling Revenue-authority" see now the General Clauses Act, 1897 (10 of 1897), s. 3 (10). The A. O. 1937 rep. s. 2 as in force elsewhere than in Bengal. In that Province the section subs. by the Court-fees (Bengal Amendment) Act, 1935 (Ben. 7 of 1935), s. 3 contains definitions of "appeal", "Chief Controlling Revenue-authority", "Collector" and "Suit". 2 Subs. by the A. O. 1950, for "the Courts which are High Courts for the purposes of the Government of India Act, 1935". 3 Subs. by the Adaptation of Laws (No. 2) Order, 1956, for "High Courts for Part A States". 4 The number "16" rep. by Act 12 of 1891. 5 See the Presidency Small Cause Courts Act, 1882 (15 of 1882), Ch. X. 6 Subs. by Act 19 of 1922, s. 2, for "judgment of two". 16A ordinary original civil jurisdiction of the Court) of one] or more Judges of the said Court, or of a Division Court; or in the exercise of its jurisdiction as regards appeals from the Courts subject to its superintendence; as Courts of reference and revision. or in the exercise of its jurisdiction as a Court of reference or revision; unless in respect of such document there be paid a fee of an amount not less than that indicated by either of the said schedules as the proper fee for such document.
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