(1) Any party to any application, inquiry or appeal under the Act before the Assistant Registrar, Registrar or Registrar-General, or any person who is interested in such application, inquiry or appeal may apply to the Assistant Registrar, Registrar or Registrar General, as the case may be, for a copy of any document in the record of such application, inquiry or appeal.
(2) The application shall be accompanied by deposit of an amount to cover the cost of preparing copies according to the following scale of copying fees, namely :- [(a) XXX] [(b) in the case of certified copies, five paise for every twenty-five words or fraction thereof for preparing copies and five paise for every one hundred words or fraction thereof for comparing;]
(c) in the case of documents in tabular forms, twice the ordinary rate;
(d) when the description of the document given in the application is incorrect or deficient, and it shall in consequence be necessary for the Record-Keeper to search his record in order to find it, a fee at the rate of one rupee for each year of which the records are searched shall be payable by the applicant for such search, whether the document be found or not and whether the copy for which he applies, on examination of the said document, be granted or not.
(3) The amount calculated according to the above scale shall be retained by the Assistant Registrar, Registrar or Registrar-General to whom the application for grant of copies is made, as copying fees and the surplus amount, if any, deposited by the person applying for copy or copies shall be refunded to him at the time of supplying the copy :
Provided that the person applying for copies shall, if the amount deposited by him is not sufficient to cover copying fees, pay the deficit before taking delivery of the copy.