Supreme Court Fees Act 1896 (NSW)

No. XIX.

surRKME Court All Act to TeiiGal sectioii 14 of tlie Act 10th

— Victoria No. 10; to enable tlie Jiidg^es of the Siijireine Court to llx the fees to be (leiiianded and paid in that Court and in the Circuit Courts; to ])rovide for the col­ lection of those fees by means of stam ps; and for other purposes. [10/"// October, 1896.]

~ O E it enacted by tbe Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty, by and with

tlie advice and consent of tlie Legislative Council and Legislative

Assembly of Xcw Soutli Wales in Parliament assembled, and by tlie

authority of the same, as folloivs :—-

Repeal of section 14 1. Section fourteen of the Act of Council, tenth Yictoria number

of 10 Vic. No. 10.	ten, is hereby repealed : Provided that the said repeal shall not apply in respect of any action commenced before the day on which this Act takes efi’ect.
J uclges may prescribe	2. Notwithstanding anything contained in the Act of Conncil, fifteenth Yictoria number seventeen, or any other Act, it shall bo lawful for the Judges of the Supreme Court to amend and alter the rules and orders now in force, and to make, amend, and alter new rules and orders fixing the fees to be demanded and paid in the Supreme Court and in the Circuit Courts.
scale of fees.
G-oTcrnor may direct	3. The Governor with the advice of the Executive Council may, by notice in the Gazette, direct that after the day specified in the notice all or any of the fees to be demanded and paid in the Supreme Court or in any Circuit Court siiallbe collected by means of stamps.
fees to be colleded
by means of stamps.
After the day specified as aforesaid, the fees mentioned in the notice shall be received by stamps denoting the sums payable, and not in money.
All or any of the stamps sliall be impressed or adhesive as may be directed in the notice.

Document, book, or 4. (i) AVhere any fee mentioned in the notice is payable in

record to be stamped. respect of a document, the stamps denoting the fee shall be affixed to

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or impressed upon the document, or such other document, booh, or record as may he prcseril)ed l)y regulations made under the authority of‘ this Act.

(ii) Wlicre any fee mentioned in the notice is j^ayaJilc other- Avisc than in rcsjAcct of a document, the stamps denoting the fee shall he affixed to or impressed on sucli document, book, or record as may ho prescriljed as aforesaid.

(in) T1u5 Governor Avith tlie advice of the Executive Council may make regulations ])i'('scribing the document, book, or record to he stamped as aforesaid.

5. No judge, justice, or offiicer of any Court shall alloAv any DoeumenMobo

such document as aforesaid to he lilcd, received, or used, although no stamped before

exception he takum thereto, nni il tlic document has been first duly	■
stamped. And if the docunumt is through mistake or inadvertence hied, received, or used in any Court Avithout hiiA'ing been first duly stamped, the said Court may ordttr tliat it he duly stamped.

6. Every officer avIiosc duty it is to receive any fees, Avhieh oflicers to see that

under the authority of this Act are renuired to bo collected by means

of stam})s, shall sec that the proper stamps have been affixed to or caucciicd.

imjircssed on the document, book, or record required to be stani])ed,

and that AAdicn adhesive stamps arc used tiie same are duly cancelled.

Tlie provisions of the Stamp Euties Act of 1880 and of any Provisions of stamp

Act amending the same shall, so far as applicable, extend and apply to and in res])ect of all stamps required under this Act to be used.

7 . This Act may be cited as the “ Supreme Court Eecs Act, short title.

1893.”