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Compendium on Acts and Rules

II.—Rules for Information.

283. Applications for information shall be presented in duplicate in Form 27. The Filling up the
form of
applicant is to present the application with the duplicate spaces reserved for the date, his
applications
name and residence, the particulars of the information required and the searching fee for
information.
tendered by him filled up. The comparer will enter in duplicate in the first column the

consecutive number, and the Deputy Collector will put his initial in duplicate in the

seventh column. If the information can be furnished at once, the comparer will note the

same on the upper portion of the form in the column for remarks and make that part over
to the applicant, taking the latter's receipt in the column for remarks in the lower portion,

which, will be retained and recorded in the office. If he cannot furnish the information at

once, he will enter in duplicate, in the sixth column of the form, the date, and, if possible,

the hour by which the information can be furnished. The upper and lower portions of the

form, with columns 1 to 7 thus filled up, will then be separated. The lower part will be

made over to the applicant with a direction to return with it at the time fixed. The upper

portion will be passed on to the clerk to whose department it pertains who will enter in

the column for remarks the necessary information and return it to the receiving officer

before the time prescribed. On the applicant's reappearance, this upper portion, bearing

the information, will be made over to him, and the lower portion, bearing his dated

receipt in the column for remarks, will be taken from him and recorded in the office.

NOTE 1.-The officer in charge of the record-room or the presiding officer, as the case

may be, will fix the hours within which the applicant should reappear for taking delivery

of the paper containing the information.

NOTE 2.-Each clerk through whose hands an application for information passes shall put

his initials and the date and hour of receipt and passing on by him on the back of the

application in the manner indicated in rule.

284. By paying an extra searching fee of one rupee, the applicant shall be entitled to Extra
searching
receive the information applied for by 4 p.m. (or 11 a.m. when the office is held in the fee.

morning) of the day on which his application is presented. This additional fee shall be

paid by means of an adhesive stamp with the application. Under the orders of the High

Court, when fees for Searching records in the Collectorate and other revenue offices are
remitted by the Civil Courts, they should be sent in court-fee stamps, and not in cash.

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