Rule 55. Fees

(1) The fee payable on an application in respect of any matter referred in Section 49 shall be Rs.200 (Rupees Two hundred) only.

(2) Subject to the provisions hereafter mentioned in this rule, the fee payable in respect of any other application except a written statement called for by the court under these rules shall be Rs.200 (Rupees Two hundred) only.

Provided that the fee for an application for obtaining a copy of translation of any document or record or statement order or decree presented to or made before or by the court, as the case may be, shall be Rupees Ten only per page.

(3) The fee for copies of any document or record, or statement or order or decree shall be Rupees Ten only per page.

(4) The fee for any authorization for the appearance of any person under sub-section (2) Section 51 on behalf of any of the parties in a case shall be Rupees Ten only

(5) The fee for filing certified copies of any document in the court shall be Rupees Ten only.

(6) All fees referred to in this Rule and in Rule 53 shall be collected by means of court fees stamps used in ordinary courts and no document which ought to bear stamp under these rules shall be of any validity unless and until it is properly stamped:

Provided that, where any such document is through mistake or inadvertence received, filed or used in a court without being properly stamped, the court may, if it thinks fit, order that such document be stamped as it may direct and on such document being stamped accordingly, the same and every proceeding relative thereto shall be as valid as if it had been properly stamped in the first instance.

(7) No document requiring a stamp under this rule shall be acted upon in any proceeding in a court, until the stamp has been cancelled.