Chapter VI
MISCELLANEOUS
31. Repayment of fees paid on applications to Criminal Courts.
31. Repayment of fees paid on applications to Criminal Courts.—[i][Rep. by the Code of Criminal Procedure (Amendment) Act, 1923 (18 of 1923) S. 163.]
32. Amendments of Act 8 of 1859 and Act 9 of 1869.
32. Amendments of Act 8 of 1859 and Act 9 of 1869.—[ii][Rep. by the Amending Act, 1891 (12 of 1891) S. 2 and Sch. I.]
33. Admission in criminal cases of documents for which proper fee has not been paid.
33. Admission in criminal cases of documents for which proper fee has not been paid.—Whenever the filing or exhibition in a Criminal Court of a document in respect of which the proper fee has not been paid is in the opinion of the presiding Judge, necessary to prevent a failure of justice, nothing contained in Section 4 or Section 6 shall be deemed to prohibit such filing or exhibition.
34. Sale of Stamps.
[iii][34. Sale of Stamps.—(1) The [iv][appropriate Government] may from time to time make rules for regulating the sale of stamps to be used under this Act, the person by whom alone such sale is to be conducted, and the duties and remuneration of such persons.
(2) All such rules shall be published in the Official Gazette, and shall thereupon have the force of law.
(3) Any person appointed to sell stamps who disobeys any rule made under this section, and any person not so appointed who sells or offers for sale any stamp, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to six months, or with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees, or with both.]
35. Power to reduce or remit fees.
35. Power to reduce or remit fees.—The [v][appropriate Government] may, from time to time by notification in the Official Gazette, reduce or remit, in the whole or in any part of [vi][the territories under its administration], all or any of the fees mentioned in the First and Second Schedules to this Act annexed, and may in like manner cancel or vary such Order.
36. Saving of fees to certain officers of High Courts.
36. Saving of fees to certain officers of High Courts.—Nothing in Chapters II and V of this Act applied to the Commission payable to the Accountant General of the High Court at Fort William, or to the fees which any officer of a High Court is allowed to receive in addition to a fixed salary.
References
[i] Repealed by Act 18 of 1923, S. 163.
[ii] Repealed by the Amending Act, 1891 (12 of 1891) S. 2 and Sch. I.
[iii] Substituted by Act 12 of 1891.
[iv] Substituted for “L.G.” by the A.O. 1937.
[v] Substituted for “L.G.” by the A.O. 1937.
[vi] Substituted for “British India” by Act 38 of 1920, S. 2 and Sch. I.
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