Bare ActsThe COURT-FEES ACT, 1870

Section 4

Fees on documents filed, etc

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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 5[judgments (other than judgments passed in the exercise of the 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. STATE AMENDMENT Uttar Pradesh Amendment of section 4 of Act VII of 1870.—In the marginal heading to the first clause of section 4 of the Court Fees Act, 1870, as amended from time to time in its application to Uttar Pradesh for the words “in the High Courts in their ordinary or extraordinary jurisdiction “ shall be substitution. [Vide Uttar Pradesh Act X of 1959, s. 2]

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