(1) Application for search. – Every person who had been an appellant or claimant before the Tribunal and who requires a search to be made among the records of the Tribunal for the purpose either of inspecting a document or documents or of obtaining copy thereof shall apply to the Tribunal in Form No. 19 appended to these rules.
(2) When the document applied for belongs to a year previous to the year of application, a search fee in Court-fee stamps shall be affixed to the application according to the following scalea) fee payable for every document or entry applied for or if only one document or entry is applied for, then, for that document or entry, Rs. 2 or such other value as may be prescribed by the Government, from time to time, by an executive order;
b) fee payable for every document or entry other than the first included in the same application and connected with the same subject- 0.50 paise; and c) When the applicant does not know to which of two or more years a document or entry belongs, the fee for searching the records of every year other than the first shall be Re. 1;
d) no separate application need be presented in respect of each document for which a search is required if they are enclosures or annexure to letters, accounts, or other documents which form part of the document to which they pertain and they shall not reckoned as separate documents for the purpose of search also.
Only one search fee of Re. 1 need be paid for all the papers filed together and forming a single record as for instance, a person applying for copy of all deposition relating to one case, need pay one fee. Search fees shall not be payable on applications for return of documents.