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Compendium on Acts and Rules

Rate of 285. The rate of searching fees to be levied on applications from landlords for
searching information regarding landlords' fees shall be—
fees for
information, Rs. a.
regarding For the first year .. .. ..10
landlords' For every additional year .. .. ..08
fees.

III,—Rules for copies.

Presentation of 286. Applications for copies should be presented in Form 28. The date of receipt and the
applications
for copies. serial number of the "applications shall be noted on the application and on the

counterfoil. If it is possible at once to inform the applicant what court-fee stamps and
folios will be required, and if such stamps and folios have not been filed with the applica-

tion, the comparer should note the requisite information on the back of the counterfoil

and return it to the applicant. If the information cannot be given at once, the applicant
should be informed that the information will be posted on the record-room "notice board

(see rule 288) at the opening of the "office on the following day and the words "told to

attend at the opening hour on.......” shall be noted on the counterfoil which should then
be returned to the applicant. If the requisite stamps and folios have been filed with the

application, the document required to be copied shall be at once sent by the office with

the application to the copying department.
NOTE.—The entries in different columns' of Register No. 55 (Form No. 16 at page 107 of

the Records Manual, 1.943) as required by this and other rules in this chapter must be

made by the Head Comparing Clerk contemporaneously with the various stages through
which the application for copy passes before its preparation and delivery.

286A. Parties, residing outside the district, may apply for copies in form No. 28 by post
Application for
copies from with an extra fee of Re. 1, in adhesive court-fee stamps, for postage. This stamp is to be
parties
residing out- affixed to the application, in addition to the stamps required under rules 278 and 279 and
side the is to be entered in the court-fee~ register. On receipt of the application the applicant will
district.
be informed what court-fee stamps and folios will be required, which must then be

supplied by him in full. Service stamps should be used in sending copies to the applicant
and in corresponding with him, if necessary. Copies should be sent by registered post

with acknowledgment due.

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