4 of Court Fees Act - Fees on documents filed, etc., in High Courts in their extraordinary jurisdiction

Section 4: Fees on documents filed, etc., in High Courts in their extraordinary jurisdiction - Court Fees Act 1870

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 1[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]

Amendment of section 4 of Act VII of 1870.--In section 4 of the Court Fees Act, 1870, as amended from time to time in its application to Uttar Pradesh--

(1) for the words "any of the said High Courts", the words "the High Court of Judicature at Allahabad shall be substituted;

(2) between the words "in the exercise of its" and the words "extraordinary original civil jurisdiction", the words "ordinary or" shall be inserted;

(3) between the words "in the exercise of its" and the words "extraordinary original criminal jurisdiction", the words "ordinary or" shall be inserted; and

(4) after the sub-paragraph "or in the exercise of its jurisdiction as a Court of reference or revision", the following sub-paragraphs shall be added--

"Or in the exercise of its jurisdiction to issue direction the exercise of nation, orders or writs under the jurisdiction to issue Constitution of India;

Or in the exercise of jurisdiction in any other in the exercise of any other jurisdiction matter."

"Vide Uttar Pradesh Act X of 1959, s. 3]

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1. Subs. by Act 19 of 1922, s. 2, for "judgment of two".