(l) The fees chargeable for serving and executing processes issued by the Collector and by Revenue Courts in the Union territory of Puducherry shall be as specified in the Schedule below :- 2 Schedule of process fees Name of process Amount leviable
(1) (2) ________________________________________________________________________ Rs. P.
I. For each summons or notice-
(a) when sent by registered post for each defendant, respondent or witness .. 2.25
(b) when served by any Officer of Court or sent by post to any other Court for service-
(i) on a defendant, respondent or witness 2.25
(ii) on every additional defendant, respondent or witness residing in the same revenue village if the process be applied for at the same time .. 1.15
(c) when handed over to a party for service One-half of the fee on a witness or witnesses specified under clause (a) supra.
Explanation I.- In cases in which there are several minor defendants or respondents, represented by a single guardian there shall be a single service upon such guardian and only one fee shall be chargeable therefor.
Explanation II.-When a process under clause (a) or (b) supra is to be sent to any country outside India by Air Mail, the amount of fee leviable shall be 75 paise plus actual postal charges which shall be deposited by the party in the shape of postal stamps.
II. For every warrant- Rs. P.
(a) of arrest in respect of every person to be arrested .. 4.50
(b) of attachment in respect of every such warrant ..
(c) of sale in respect of every such warrant .. 4.50
(d) of delivery of possession in respect of every such warrant ..
with additional fee for the service of every officer including a Revenue Officer, entrusted with the warrant for each day after the second day beginning with the day on which the warrant was issued .. 1.50 III. For proclamation, injunction or order and every process not otherwise provided for .. 4.50 (An additional fee being leviable after the second day as mentioned under item II above.)
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Explanation : If the process is not executed, no further fee for re-issue shall be levied.
IV. In respect of sales, a fee by way of poundage on the purchase money calculated at 6% (six per cent) upto Rs. 1,000 and 3% (Three per cent), above Rs. 1,000.
Explanation I .- For processes applied for and ordered to be executed as emergent, the fee will be the ordinary fee and half as much again.
Explanation II.- Each process should be paid for according to the time which it really occupies, The party must not be charged for time occupied in serving processes other than his own, but he must pay for all the days, which his own process or processes would have occupied, if it or they had alone been entrusted to the server. When one applicant puts in several processes to be executed at the same time in the same locality, the charge for any additional days occupied on account of such processes may be distributed over them.
Explanation III.- (1) The additional fees to be levied under items II and III of the above Schedule for each day after the second shall ordinarily be collected in advance, the journey being calculated at the rate of 48 kilometres a day.
(2) In every case in which application is made to a Court for the issue of process beyond the jurisdiction of the Court, there shall be levied the fee that would be leviable for the issue of such process in the Court to which the application is made.
(3) The fee levied under this rule must be paid in Court-Fee labels of the proper amount, to be affixed to the application; such labels shall be punched by the officer appointed to receive the application by the Presiding Officer of the Court, who will endorse a note on the process that the proper fee for the issue thereof has been levied.
*[3A. Purchase and use of court fee stamps.- The court fee stamps purchased in the Union territory of Puducherry shall alone be used for the payment of all fees chargeable under the Act.]