79 Fee on appeal and certain other applications

CHAPTER XIII

MISCELLANEOUS

79.  Fee on appeal and certain other applications:-

        Notwithstanding anything contained in the Bombay Court-fees Act, 1959 (Bom. XXXV of 1959),-

(a)        any application not otherwise provided for when presented to a prescribed authority for a prescribed purpose or when presented to the Tribunal shall subject to the provisions of clause (b), be charged with such fee not exceeding one hundred rupees, as may be prescribed; and

(b)        an appeal preferred under section 26 1[shall be charged with such fee], not exceeding one thousand rupees, as may be prescribed, if the amount in dispute exceeds rupees one lakh, and any other appeal shall be charged with such fee not exceeding one hundred rupees, as may be prescribed.

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          1 These words were substituted for the words “shall bear a court fee stamp of such value” by Mah. Act No. XXV of 2007, dt. 6.8.2007 w.e.f. 15.8.2007 as per Notification No. VAT.1507/CR-57/Taxation-1, dt. 10.8.2007