THE ARUNACHAL PRADESH COURT FEES ACT, 2023

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    "title": "THE ARUNACHAL PRADESH COURT FEES ACT, 2023",
    "short_title": "The Arunachal Pradesh Court Fees Act, 2023",
    "act_number": "6",
    "act_year": 2023,
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    "location": "Arunachal Pradesh",
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    "enactment_date": "2023-09-27",
    "description": "The Arunachal Pradesh Court Fees Act, 2023",
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            "number": "1",
            "title": "An ACT",
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            "content": "An Act to consolidate laws relating to Court Fees and matters connected therewith or incidental thereto;\nBE it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of Arunachal Pradesh in the Seventy-fourth Year of the Republic of India as follows,-",
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            "title": "Section 1(1)",
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            "content": "(1) This Act may be called the Arunachal Pradesh Court Fees Act, 2023.",
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            "title": "Section 1(2)",
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            "content": "(2) It shall extend to whole of the State of Arunachal Pradesh, except Customary Courts.",
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            "number": "1",
            "title": "Section 1(3)",
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            "content": "(3) It shall come into force on such date as the State Government may by notification in the Official Gazette appoint.",
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            "title": "Section 2",
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            "content": "Unless the context otherwise requires,-",
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            "number": "2",
            "title": "Section 2(a)",
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            "content": "(a) \"Act\" means the Arunachal Pradesh Court Fees Act, 2023;",
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            "number": "2",
            "title": "Section 2(b)",
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            "content": "(b) \"Annexure\" means Annexure appended to the Act;",
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            "number": "2",
            "title": "Section 2(c)",
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            "content": "(c) \"Collector\" means Deputy Commissioner of the District;",
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        {
            "number": "2",
            "title": "Section 2(d)",
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            "content": "(d) \"Fees\" means fees payable to the High Court and Subordinate Courts of Arunachal Pradesh;",
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            "number": "2",
            "title": "Section 2(e)",
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            "content": "(e) \"Government\" means Government of Arunachal Pradesh;",
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        },
        {
            "number": "2",
            "title": "Section 2(f)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(f) \"High Court\" means High Court having jurisdiction over the State of Arunachal Pradesh;",
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        },
        {
            "number": "2",
            "title": "Section 2(g)",
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            "content": "(g) \"Prescribed\" means prescribed by rules made under this Act;",
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            "number": "2",
            "title": "Section 2(h)",
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            "content": "(h) \"Schedule\" means Schedules appended to the Act;",
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        {
            "number": "2",
            "title": "Section 2(i)",
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            "content": "(i) \"State\" means State of Arunachal Pradesh;",
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        {
            "number": "3",
            "title": "Section 3",
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            "content": "Levy of fees in High Court on their original sides:\nThe fees payable for the time being to the clerks and officers of the High Courts shall be as provided in the First Schedule and the Second Schedule appended to this Act.",
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        {
            "number": "4",
            "title": "Section 4",
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            "content": "Fees on documents filed, etc., in High Court, in its extraordinary jurisdiction.\nNo document of any of the kinds specified in the First or Second Schedule annexed to this Act as chargeable fees, shall be filed, exhibited or recorded in, or shall be received or furnished by, the High Court in any case coming before such Court in the exercise of its extraordinary original civil jurisdiction or in the exercise of its extraordinary original criminal jurisdiction or in the exercise of its jurisdiction as regards appeals from the judgments (other than judgments passed in the exercise of the ordinary original civil jurisdiction of the Court) of one or more Judges of the said Court, or of a Division Court or in the exercise of its jurisdiction as regards appeals from the Courts subject to its pipelines or in the exercise of its jurisdiction as a Court of reference or revision unless in respect of such document there be paid a fee of an amount not less than that indicated by either of the said Schedules as the proper fee for such document.",
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            "number": "5",
            "title": "Section 5(1)",
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            "content": "Procedure in case of difference as to necessity or amount of fee:\r\n(1) When any difference arises between the officer whose duty is to see that any fee is paid under this Chapter and any litigator or advocate, as to the necessity of paying a fee or the amount thereof, the question shall, when the difference arises in the High Court, be referred to the taxing-officer, whose decision thereon shall be final, except when the question is, in his opinion, one of general importance, in which case he shall refer it to the final decision of the Chief Justice of said Court, or of such Judge of the High Court as the Chief Justice shall appoint either generally or specially in this behalf.",
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        "Act ID": "20236",
        "Act Number": "6",
        "Enactment Date": "2023-09-27",
        "Act Year": "2023",
        "Short Title": "The Arunachal Pradesh Court Fees Act, 2023",
        "Department": "Law, Legislative and Justice Department",
        "Type": "STATE",
        "Location": "Arunachal Pradesh",
        "Law Status": "Valid"
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    "updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:55:16"
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