6 of Court Fees Act - Fees on documents filed, etc., in Mofussil Courts or in public offices

Section 6: Fees on documents filed, etc., in Mofussil Courts or in public offices - Court Fees Act 1870

Except in the Court hereinbefore mentioned, no document of any of the kinds specified as chargeable in the first or second schedule to this Act annexed shall be filed, exhibited or recorded in any Court of Justice, or shall be received or furnished by any public officer, 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
Orissa
Amendment of section 6 of Act (7 of 1870).--Section 6 of the principal Act shall be re-numbered as sub-section (1) of section 6 and , after the said sub-section, the following sub-section shall be inserted:--

"(2) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1), the Provincial Government may, by notification, direct that a copy of a document, specified as chargeable in Schedules I and II to this Act annexed, shall be furnished by a public officer without payment of the fee indicated by either of the said Schedules as the proper fee for such copy and the copy so furnished shall be chargeable with the requisite fee only when it is filed, exhibited or recorded in any Court of justice or received by a public officer as mentioned in sub-section (1)."
[Vide Orissa Act 5 of 1939, s. 4]

STATE AMENDMENT
Uttar Pradesh
Amendment of section 6 of Act (7 of 1870).--In section 6 of the Court Fees Act, 1870 as amended in its application to Uttar Pradesh, hereinafter, in this Chapter referred to as the principal Act,--

(a) in sub-section (1), in the first proviso, for the words "the United Provinces Tenancy Act, 1939, or the United Provinces Land Revenue Act, 1901", the words "any law relation to land tenures or land revenue shall be substituted;

(b) in sub-section (6), for the words "Chief Inspector of Stamps" the words "Commission of Stamps" shall be substituted.
[Vide Uttar Pradesh Act 6 of 1980, s. 2]

Amendment of section 6-A.--In section 6-A of the principal Act, in sub-section (3), for the words "Chief Inspector of Stamps", the words "Commissioners of Stamps" shall be substituted.
[Vide Uttar Pradesh Act 6 of 1980, s. 3]

Amendment of section 6-B.--In section 6-B of the principal Act, in sub-section (1), for the words "Chief Inspector of Stamps", the words "Commissioner of Stamps" shall be substituted.
[Vide Uttar Pradesh Act 6 of 1980, s. 4]