THE ASSAM COURT-FEES (AMENDMENT) ACT, 1954

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    "title": "THE ASSAM COURT-FEES (AMENDMENT) ACT, 1954",
    "short_title": "The Assam Court-Fees (Amendment) Act, 1954",
    "act_number": "27",
    "act_year": 1954,
    "act_type": "STATE",
    "location": "Assam",
    "law_status": "valid",
    "enactment_date": "1954-09-08",
    "description": "The Assam Court-Fees (Amendment) Act, 1954",
    "preamble": "",
    "section_label": "Section",
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        {
            "number": "1",
            "title": "An ACT",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "An Act further to amend the Court-Fees Act, 1870 (Act VII of 1870) with reference to the scale of Court-Fees in Assam",
            "footnote": "Act VII of 1870",
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            "sort_order": 0
        },
        {
            "number": "2",
            "title": "An ACT",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Whereas it is necessary to amend the Court-Fees Act, 870 (Act VII of 1870) hereinafter called the principal Act, in its application to Assam, in the manner hereinafter appearing;\nIt is hereby enacted in the Fifth Year of the Republic of India as follows:",
            "footnote": "Act VII of 1870",
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            "sort_order": 10
        },
        {
            "number": "1",
            "title": "Section 1. Short title, extent and commencement",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Short title, extent and commencement.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 20
        },
        {
            "number": "1",
            "title": "Section 1(1)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "This Act may be called the Assam Court-Fees (Amendment) Act, 1954.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 30
        },
        {
            "number": "1",
            "title": "Section 1(2)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "It extends to the whole of Assam.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 40
        },
        {
            "number": "1",
            "title": "Section 1(3)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "It shall come in to force at once.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 50
        },
        {
            "number": "2",
            "title": "Section 2. Amendment of S. 1 (3) of Assam Act VIII of 1950",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "In sub-S. (3) of S. 1. of the Assam Court-Fees (Amendment) Act, 1950, all full stop shall be inserted after the figure \"1950\" and the words \"and shall remain in force for a period of five years\" shall be deleted.",
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        {
            "number": "3",
            "title": "Section 3. Amendment of Schedule II, Art. 1",
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            "content": "For Art. 1 substitute the following:\nNumber | Proper fee\n1.\n(a) Application or petition — Fifty paise\nWhen presented to any officer of the Custom or Excise Department or to any Magistrate by any person having dealings with the Government, and when the subject-matter of such application relates exclusively to those dealings; or\nWhen presented to any Municipal Board or other local authority constituted under any Act for the time being in force for the conservance or improvement of any place, if the application or petition relates solely to such conservancy or improvement; or\nWhen presented to any civil court other than a principal civil court of original jurisdiction, or to any Court of Small Causes constituted under Act No 16 of 1868, S. 20 or to a Collector or other officer of revenue in relation to any suit or case in which the amount or value of the subject-matter is less than; or\nWhen presented to any civil, criminal or revenue court or to any board or executive officer for the purpose of obtaining a copy or translation of any judgment, decree or order passed by such court, board or officer or of any other document or record in such court of office;\n(b) When presented to a regional transport authority or State Transport Authority containing a prayer for permits for contract carriage, stage carriage, private carrier or public carrier or for any other purpose. — Seven rupees and fifty naye paise",
            "footnote": "Act No 16 of 1868, S. 20",
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            "sort_order": 70
        },
        {
            "number": "4",
            "title": "Section 4. Amendment of Schedule II, Art 11",
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            "content": "Amendment of Schedule II, Art 11.",
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            "sort_order": 80
        }
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    "metadata": {
        "Act ID": "195427",
        "Act Number": "27",
        "Enactment Date": "1954-08-29",
        "Act Year": "1954",
        "Short Title": "The Assam Court-Fees (Amendment) Act, 1954",
        "Department": "Government of Assam",
        "Type": "STATE",
        "Location": "Assam"
    },
    "updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:55:17"
}