High Court of Australia (Fees) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules 1995

No. 418 1

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High Court of Australia (Fees) Regulations 2(Amendment)

I, The Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following Regulations under the Judiciary Act 1903.

Dated 20 December 1995.

 BILL HAYDEN

 Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

M. LAVARCH

Attorney-General

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1.   Commencement

1.1   These Regulations commence on 1 January 1996.

2.   Amendment

2.1   The High Court of Australia (Fees) Regulations are amended as set out in these Regulations.

3.   Regulation 3 (Interpretation)

3.1   Add at the end:

 “(2) A term or expression used in these Regulations and in the Rules of Court made under section 86 of the Act has the same meaning in these Regulations as it has in those Rules.”.

4.   Regulation 5 (Hearing fees)

4.1   Subregulation 5 (1):

Omit “$500”, substitute “$616”.

5.   Schedule (Fees)

5.1   Omit Schedule 1, substitute:

“SCHEDULE 1 Regulation 4

FEES FOR FILING, ISSUING OR SEALING A DOCUMENT OR OBTAINING A SERVICE

PART 1 DOCUMENT OR SERVICE MENTIONED IN SUBREGULATION 4 (1)
Column 1 Item No.	Column 2 Document or service	Column 3 Fee
1	Application under rule 1 of Order 55 of the Rules	$368.00
2	Writ of summons or petition	$368.00
3	Civil special leave application	$245.00
4	Criminal special leave application	$62.00
5	Application initiating a proceeding (including removals under section 40 of the Act, but not including an application referred to in another item of this Schedule)	$123.00

SCHEDULE 1—continued

Column 1 Item No.   Column 2 Document or service   Column 3 Fee  

 

6	Notice of appeal	$368.00
7	Certificate of the Registrar other than a certificate of taxation	$37.00
8	Taxing a bill of costs for every $100.00, or part of $100.00	$7.50

PART 2 DOCUMENT OR SERVICE MENTIONED IN SUBREGULATION 4 (2)
Column 1 Item No.	Column 2 Document or service	Column 3 Fee

 

9	Searching or inspecting a document mentioned in subrule 8 (2) of Order 58 of the Rules
for each hour or part of an hour	$12.00
10	Making a photocopy or office copy of any document:
for each page	$2.50
11	Copy of reasons for judgment: (a) for each copy issued to a person not a party to the proceedings; and (b) for each copy in excess of one copy issued to a party to the proceeding; and (c) in respect of each copy issued:  (i)   for each page in excess of 10         pages; or  (ii)   maximum per copy	$2.50    $2.50    $0.60 $25.00
12	Annual subscription for copies of reasons for judgments (including the cost of postage)	$430.00

SCHEDULE 1—continued

Column 1 Item No.   Column 2 Document or service   Column 3 Fee  

 

13	Copy of transcript of proceedings prepared by the Court Reporting Service:
for each page	$0.40”.

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NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 22 December 1995.

2. Statutory Rules 1991 No. 449 as amended by 1992 No. 80.