County Court (Court Fees) (Amendment) Order 2001 (Vic)

County Court (Court Fees) (Amendment) Order

2001

S.R. No. 34/2001

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

Order Page

1.	Objective	1
2.	Authorising provision	1
3.	Commencement	1
4.	New Schedule substituted	1

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STATUTORY RULES 2001

S.R. No. 34/2001

County Court Act 1958

County Court (Court Fees) (Amendment) Order

2001

The Governor in Council makes the following Order:
Dated: 24 April 2001

Responsible Minister:

ROB HULLS

Attorney-General

HELEN DOYE

Clerk of the Executive Council

1. Objective

The objective of this Order is to increase the fees
payable in respect of civil proceedings in the

County Court.

2. Authorising provision

This Order is made under section 28 of the

County Court Act 1958.

3. Commencement

This Order comes into operation on 1 May 2001.

4. New Schedule substituted

For the Schedule to the County Court (Court Fees)

Order 19961 substitute—

"SCHEDULE
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FEES OF COURT

No. Item $

1.	(a)	For filing originating process	429.00
(b)	For issuing an originating adoption	180.00
summons
(c)	For filing an interlocutory	159.00
application
(d)	For filing an application for the	110.00
examination of a judgment debtor under Rule 67.02 or 72.04 or a summons for oral examination under Rule 61.04 of Chapter I of the Rules of the County Court
(e)	For filing an application for the	180.00
approval of a proposed change of name of a child under section 26(4) of the Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act 1996
2.	For filing a counterclaim or defence	429.00
and counterclaim
3.	For filing a subpoena	60.00
4.	For filing judgment in default of	122.00
appearance or pleading or judgment obtained under Order 22, 23, or 24 of Chapter I of the Rules of the
County Court
5.	For every certificate of the	30.00
Registrar
6.	For every search of documents not	19.00
otherwise provided for
7.	For every search of registers or	19.00
suitors' books, for each month or part of a month requested to be searched

No.	Item	$
8.	For every affidavit or affirmation	7.00

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taken before the Registrar as such

9.	For every sitting of an officer of the	48.00
Court at mediation—for each hour or part of an hour
10.	For each sitting of an officer of the	58.00
Court at pre-trial conference
11.	On setting down for trial	180.00
12.	For hearing at trial by Judge or	180.00
Judge with jury—for every day or part of a day (except that where a fee has been paid under item 11 no
fee is payable for the first day or first part of that day)
13.	Copies of Judges Notes or office	7.00
copies of any proceedings whatever, each page
14.	For registrar fixing date and time of	41.00
sitting for taxing costs
15.	For each sitting of the Registrar taxing costs (otherwise than on a judgment by default or consent) taking accounts or evidence, making enquiries or acting as a special examiner—

for every hour or part of an	154.00
hour
if at any place other than the	1.50
Registrar's offices, for every kilometre or part of a kilometre travelled, one way

16.   For auditing receiver's accounts—

for any sum in account not	70.00
exceeding $200
for every additional $100, or	12.00
part of $100

No.	Item	$
17.	For every application by a judgment	35.00
creditor under section 6 or 8 of the Judgment Debt Recovery Act

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1984 or for the filing by a judgment creditor of an instalment agreement under section 7 of that Act

18.	On transfer of a proceeding from the	$429—less
Magistrates' Court	any fee paid to the Magistrates' Court on commence- ment of the proceeding.".

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1 Order 4: S.R. No. 30/1996 as amended by S.R. Nos 113/1997, 102/1998,

145/1998, 3/2000 and 42/2000.