This Act may be called the Court Fees Act, 1870.
It extends to the whole of India.
And it shall come into force on first day of April, 1870.
NOTES
The Court fee Act, a fiscal enactment, has always to be construed very strictly and in favour of the subject, but always bearing in mind that the Act's object is not to provide the litigant a weapon to harass his opponents. Manorama Shanna v. Suresh Kumar Sharma, 1980 MPLJ 618.
Court fees are payable on a PIL filed as a writ petition under Art. 226, except where the Chief Justice or a Judge designate directs on the basis of information received in a letter or any other document and considers that it is fit case for registering a case under Art. 226 even though no Court fees is paid on such letter or document. S.P. Anand v. Registrar General, M.P. High Court, AIR 2009 MP 1 (FB): 2010(2) MPLJ 473.
In this Act "the Appropriate Government" means, in relation to fees or stamps relating to documents represented or to be presented before any officer serving under the Central Government, that Government, and in relation to any other fees or stamps, the State Government.
this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context "memorandum of appeal" shall include "memorandum of cross-objection" and "suit" shall include an appeal from a decree.
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