New South Wales Repealed Regulations

This legislation has been repealed.

SUPREME COURT REGULATION 2000 - REG 9

9 Persons by and to whom fees payable (other than hearing allocation or hearing fees)

(1) Any fee charged under this Regulation for any document or service is payable, by the person at whose request the document is filed or the service rendered:

(a) in the case of an originating process that is filed in an office (other than the registry) of a clerk of the Court--to the clerk, or

(b) in any other case--to the registrar who is requested to file the document or render the service.

(2) In the case of a fee that is chargeable in the Sheriff's Office for any document or service, the fee is payable to the Sheriff by the person at whose request the document is filed or the service rendered.

(3) If a document is filed or a service rendered at the request of a person acting as an agent for another person, each of those persons is jointly and severally liable for payment of any such fee.

(4) A clerk of the Court who receives a fee under subclause (1) (a) must send to the registrar a copy of the receipt for the fee together with the originating process that is sent to the registrar in accordance with Part 7 rule 6 (4) of the Supreme Court Rules 1970 .

(5) A reference in Schedule 1 to a fee payable in the case of a corporation is a reference to a corporation on whose behalf a request is made to file a document or render a service.

(6) This clause:

(a) does not apply to hearing allocation fees or hearing fees, and

(b) is subject to any provision to the contrary in Schedule 1.