CHAPTER IV Computation of Fee.

Section 21: Suits for money

The Rajasthan Court Fees and Suits Valuation Act, 1961

The Rajasthan Court Fees and Suits Valuation (Amendment) Act, 2020 (Act No. 11 of 2020), assented to on 26 March 2020 and published in the Rajasthan Gazette on 30 March 2020, substitutes this section. The new section 21, headed "Suits for money or damages", adds a proviso that in a suit for damages for defamation the fee is computed on the amount claimed subject to a maximum fee of rupees twenty five thousand; the Fatal Accidents Act proviso becomes the second proviso. The India Code text below does not show that change.

How current this text is

Text as published by India Code for the Government of Rajasthan, with amendments up to Rajasthan Act No. 19 of 2009.

The Rajasthan Court Fees and Suits Valuation (Amendment) Act, 2020 (Act No. 11 of 2020) substitutes section 21, which now caps the fee in a suit for damages for defamation at twenty five thousand rupees; not shown in this text.

Schedules I, II and III are also published by India Code as separate files.

In a suit for money (including a suit for damages or compensation, or arrears of maintenance, of annuities, or of other sums payable periodically), fee shall be computed on the amount claimed:

¹[Provided that in an action or suit for damages under the Fatal Accidents Act, 1855 (Central Act 13 of 1855) a fixed fee of rupees ten shall be payable on the plaint or the memorandum of appeal.]

Footnotes in the official text

1.Inserted by section 2 of Rajasthan Act No. 16 of 1990, published in Rajasthan Gazette, Extraordinary, Part IV(A), dated 09-08-1990.

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