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CHAPTER II Liability to Pay Fee.

Section 5: Fees on documents inadvertently received

The Rajasthan Court Fees and Suits Valuation Act, 1961

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.

When a document on which the whole or any part of the fee prescribed by this Act has not been paid is produced or has, through mistake or inadvertence, been received in any Court or public office, the court or the head of the office may, in its or his discretion at any time, allow the person by whom such fee is payable to pay the fee or part thereof, as the case may be within such time as may be fixed; and upon such payment the document shall have the same force and effect as if the full fee had been paid in the first instance.

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