66. Collection of fees by stamps.-

(1) All fees chargeable under this Act shall be collected by stamps.

(2) The Stamps used to denote any fee chargeable under this Act shall be impressed or adhesive or partly impressed and partly adhesive, as the State Government may, by notification in the official Gazette, from time to time direct.

67. Amended document.-

Where any document which ought to bear a stamp under this Act is amended in order merely to correct a mistake and to make it conform to the original intention of the parties, it shall not be necessary to impose fresh stamp.

68. Cancellation of stamp.-

No document requiring a stamp under this Act shall be filed or acted upon in any proceeding in any Court or office until the stamp has been cancelled.

(2) Such officer as the Court or the head of the office may, from time to time, appoint shall, on receiving any such document, forthwith effect such cancellation by punching out the figure head so as to leave the amount designated on the stamp untouched, and the part removed by punching shall be burnt or otherwise destroyed.

69. Deduction to be made.-

Where allowance is made under this Act for damaged or spoiled stamps or where fee already paid is directed to be refunded to any person by an order of Court, the Collector may, on the application of the person concerned, pay to him the amount of fee, or, where damaged or spoiled stamps are produced, he may, after satisfying himself about their genuineness, give in lieu thereof the same amount or value in stamps of the same or any other description, or if the applicant so desired, the same amount or value in money:

provided that in all cases where money is paid in cash, a deduction shall be made of six naye paise for each rupee or fraction thereof. No such deduction shall however be made where refund is claimed in respect of any fee paid in pursuance of an order of Court which has been varied or reversed in appeal.

70. Penalty.-

Any person appointed to sell stamps, who disobeys any rule made under this Act, and any person, not so appointed, who sells or offers for sale any stamps, shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to six months, or with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees, or with both.

71. Power of High Court to make rules.-

(1) The High Court may make rules to provide for or regulate all or any of the following matters namely:-

(a) the fees payable for serving and executing processes issued by the High Court in its appellate jurisdiction and by the Civil and Criminal Courts subordinate thereto;

(b) the remuneration of persons employed by the Court mentioned in clause (a) in the service or execution of processes;

(c) the fixing by District and Sessions Judges and District Magistrates of the number of process servers necessary to be employed for the service and execution of processes issued from their respective courts and the Courts subordinate thereto;

(d) the display in each Court of a table in English and in Hindi showing the fees payable for the service and execution of processes.

(2) All rules made under sub-section (1) shall be subject to confirmation by the State Government with or without modification and on such confirmation they shall be published in the official Gazette and shall thereupon have effect as if enacted in this Act.

72. Power of Board of Revenue to make rules.-

(1) The Board of Revenue may, with the previous sanction of the State Government, make rules consistent with this Act to provide for or regulate all or any of the following matters, namely:-

(a) the fees chargeable for serving and executing processes issued by the Board of Revenue and by the Revenue Courts;

(b) the remuneration of the persons necessary to be employed for the service and execution of such processes;

(c) the fixing by Collectors of the number of persons necessary to be employed for the service and execution of such processes;

(d) the guidance of Collectors in the exercise of their powers under Chapter VI.

(2) All rules made under this section shall be published in the official Gazette and on such publication shall have effect as if enacted in this Act.

73. Power of State Government to make rules.-

(1) The State Government may, by notification in the official Gazette, make rules to provide for the following matters, namely:-

(a) the supply of stamps to be used under this Act,

(b) the number of stamps to be used for denoting any fee chargeable under this Act,

(c) the keeping of accounts of all stamps used under this Act,

(d) the circumstances in which stamps may be held to be damaged or spoiled,

(e) the circumstances and manner in which, and the authorities by which, allowance for used, damaged or spoiled stamps may be made,

(f) the regulation of the sale of stamps to be used under this Act, the persons by whom alone such stamps may be sold and the duties and remuneration of such persons,

(g) generally for carrying out the purposes of this Act.

(2) All rules made under this Act shall be laid, as soon as may be after they are so made, before the House of the State Legislature, while it is in session, for a period of not less than fourteen days which may be comprised in one session or in two successive sessions and, if, before the expiry of the session in which they are so laid or of the session immediately following, the House of the State Legislature makes any modification in any of such rules or resolves that any such rule should not be made, such rule shall thereafter have effect only in such modified form or be of no effect, as the case may be, so however that any such modification or annulment shall be without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done thereunder.

74. Repeal and saving.-

(1) The Rajasthan Court Fees Act (Adaptation) Ordinance, 1950 (Rajasthan Ordinance 9 of 1950), the Rajasthan Suit Valuation Act, 1958 (Rajasthan Act 3 of 1959) and all enactments amending the aforesaid Ordinance and Act are hereby repealed and the provisions of the Rajasthan General Clauses Act, 1955 (Rajasthan Act 8 of 1955), shall apply to such repeal.

(2) Notwithstanding such repeal, all suits and proceedings instituted before the commencement of this Act and all proceedings by way of appeal, revision or otherwise arising therefrom whether instituted before or after such commencement shall be governed by the provisions of the said Ordinance and Act and the rules made thereunder.