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The Court-fees Act, 1870

Section 4Fees on documents filed, etc., in the High Court Division in their extraordinary jurisdiction;

In forceChapter II FEES PAYABLE IN COURTS AND IN PUBLIC OFFICES

Chapter II FEES PAYABLE IN COURTS AND IN PUBLIC OFFICES

s. 4

4. Fees on documents filed, etc., in the High Court Division 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, the [High Court Division] in any case coming before such Court in the exercise of its extraordinary original civil jurisdiction; or in the exercise of its extra-ordinary original criminal jurisdiction; [in their appellate jurisdiction;] or in the exercise of its jurisdiction as regards appeals from the 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.

  1. 6. The words “High Court Division” were substituted, for the words “High Courts” by section 3 and 2nd Schedule of the Bangladesh Laws (Revision And Declaration) Act, 1973 (Act No. VIII of 1973).

End of s. 4. Not in the index for this Act: Schedule (4).

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