The amount of fee payable under this Act on a memorandum of appeal against an order relating to compensation under any Act for the time being in force for the acquisition of land for public purposes, shall be computed according to the difference between the amount awarded and the amount claimed by the appellant.
STATE AMENDMENTS
Orissa
Insertion of new section 8A in Act (7 of 1870).--After section 8 of the principal Act, the following section shall be inserted:--
"8A. Statement of particulars of subject-matters of suits and plaintiffs valuation thereof.--In every suit in which an advalorem court-fee is payable under this Act on the plaint, the plaintiff shall file with the plaint a statement of particulars of the subject-matter of the suit ad his own valuation thereof unless such particulars and the valuation are contained in the plaint. The statement shall be in such form and shall contain such particulars as may be prescribed by the Provincial Government by notification in the Gazette. In every such suit the plaintiff shall also, if the Court so directs, file a duplicate copy of the plaint and of the said statement".
[Vide Orissa Act 5 of 1939, s. 11]
Haryana
Amendment of section 8 of central Act 7 of 1870.--To section 8 of the Court Fees Act, 1870, (hereinafter called the principal Act), the following proviso, shall be added, namely:--
"Provided that the fixed court fee of one hundred rupees shall be payable on the memorandum of a appeal or cross objections before the High Court arising under the Land Acquisition Act, 1984 or any other law for the time being in force for acquisition of land for public purposes.".
[Vide Haryana Act 3 of 1990, s. 2]