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24, Exemption of certain documents : Nothing contained in this Act shall render the following documents chargeable with any fee:— (i) Power-of-attorney to institute or defend a suit when executed by a member of any of the Armed Farces of the Union not in civil employment. (i) Written statements called for by the Court after the first hearing of a suit. (i) Plaints in suits or any proceedings before village authority under the provisions Arunachal Pradesh Civil Courts Act, 2021 and the Assam Frontier (Administration of Justice) Regulation, 1945. (iv) Probate of a will, letters of administration, where the amount or value of the property in respect of which the probate or letters or certificate shall be granted does not exceed two thousand rupees. (v) Application or petition to a Colfector or other officer making a settlement of land revenue, or 1o 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 settiement. (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 direct engagement with Government, land of which the 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 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. (i) Bail-bonds in criminal cases, recognizances to prosecute o give evidence, and recognizances for personal appearance or otherwise. (xii) Petition by a prisoner, or other person in duress or under restraint of any Court or its officers. (xiify Complaint of a public servant as defined in the Indian Penal Code 1860. (xiv) Application for the payment of money due by Government to the applicant. (xv) Petition of appeal against the assessment of municipal tax. (xvi) Applications for compensation under any law for the time being in force relating to the acquisition of property for public purposes. (xvii} Petition relating to marriage solemnized as per local traditional customary laws of the State or registration of marriage as per Arunachal Pradesh Recording of Marriage Act, 2008, as the case may be. CHAPTER-IV PROBATES, LETTERS OF ADMINISTRATION AND CERTIFICATES OF ADMINISTRATION Relief where too high a court-fee has been paid : Where any person on applying for the probate of a will or letters of administration has estimated the property of the deceased to be of greater value than the same has afterwards proved to be, and has consequently paid too high a court-fee thereon, if, within six months affer the true vaiue of the property has been ascertained, such person produces the probate or letters to the Principal Controlling Revenue-authority for the local area in which the probate or letters has or have been granted, and delivers to.such Authority a particular inventory and valuation of the property of the deceased, verified by affidavit or affirmation, and if such Autherity is satisfied that a greater fee was paid on the probate or letters than the law required, the said Authority may— (8) cancel the stamp on the probate or letters if such stamp has not been already cancelled; (b) substitute another stamp for denoting the court-fee which should have been thereon; and () make an allowance for the difference between them as in the case of spoiled stamps, or repay the same in money, at his discretion. Relief where debts due from a deceased person have been paid out of his estate : Whenever it is proved to the satisfaction of such Authority that an executor or administrator has paid debts due from the deceased to such an amount as, being deducted out of the amount or value of the estate, reduces the same to a sum which, if it had been the whole gross amount or value of the estate, would have occasioned a less court-fee to be paid on the probate or letters of administration granted in respect of such estate than has been actually paid thereon under this Act, such Authority may return the difference, provided the same be dlaimed within three years after the date of such probate or letters. The Arunachal Pradesh Extraordinary Gazette, September 29, 2023 7