| Fee Description | Amount | Authority |
|---|---|---|
| For Parchment Plan attached to Lease | $10.00 | C.S.O. No. 2271 of 30th September, 1878 |
| For registering a Lis Pendens | $1.00 | Ordinance 10 of 1856 |
| For registering a Writ of Foreign Attachment | $1.00 | Ordinance 13 of 1873 |
| For registering a Certificate cancelling Writ | $1.00 |
| Fee Description | Amount | Authority |
|---|---|---|
| For every application for Certificate of Competency as Mate or Second Class Engineer | $20.00 | Section 15 of Ordinance 26 of 1891 |
| For every application for Certificate of Competency as Master or First Class Engineer | $15.00 | Section 15 of Ordinance 26 of 1891 |
Order in Council, 23rd Aug., 1883, and Secretary of State's Despatch dated 4th September, 1894, ordering all Admiralty Fees to be remitted into the Colonial Treasury.
The 1st day of October, 1892.
I, the undersigned, Chief Justice of the Colony of Hongkong, by virtue of the power and authority in me vested do hereby order and direct as follows:-
| Fee Description | Amount | Authority |
|---|---|---|
| Sealing every Writ of Summons, for commencement of a Suit, (except a concurrent renewed or amended Writ) and sealing a Writ of Injunction, Certiorari, Mandamus or Habeas Corpus | $3.00 | Ordinance 12 of 1878 |
| Sealing a concurrent, renewed or amended Writ of Summons | $3.00 | |
| Interpleader Summons | $1.00 | |
| Sealing a Subpoena | $2.00 | |
| Sealing a Subpoena for each Witness in addition to the first | $0.50 | |
| Entering an Appearance (each Defendant) | $1.00 | |
| Certificate of Non-Appearance | $1.00 | |
| Sealing a Warrant for arrest of a Defendant, or for arrest and detention of a Ship or for Attachment of Property before Judgment | $10.00 | |
| Sealing a Writ of Execution or Writ of Possession | $10.00 | |
| Order for Release of Defendant from Custody | $0.50 | |
| Sealing a Prohibitory Order | $2.00 | |
| Each Copy, Prohibitory Order | $1.00 |
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SPECIFICATION OF TAXES, DUTIES, &c.
Act of Colonial Legislature or other Authority under which levied.
DEED REGISTRY AND LEASES,--Continued.
For Parchment Plan attached to Lense,.......
For registering a Lis Pendens,
For registering a Writ of Foreign Attachment,................... For registering a Certifiente cancelling Writ,.
$ 10.00
C.S.O. No. 2271 of 30th
September, 1878.
1.00
Ordinanco 10 of 1856.
1.00
Ordinance 13 of 1873.
1.00
EXAMINATION OF MASTERS, Mates and ENGINEERS:—
For every application for Certificate of Competency as Mate or Second
Class Engineer,.
For every application for Certifiente of Competency as Master or First
Class Engineer,..
.$20.00
Section 15 of Ordinanco
26 of 1891.
15.00
Admiralty Fees,
Order in Council, 23rl Aug., 1883, and Secretary of State's Despatch clated 4th September, 1894, ordering all Admimity Feen to be remitted into the Colonial Treasury.
ORDER AS TO THE FEES AND PERCENTAGES TO BE
TAKEN IN THE SUPREME COURT.
The 1st day of October, 1892.
-
I, the undersigned, Chief Justice of the Colony of Hongkong, by virtue of the power and authority in me vested do hereby order and direct as follows:-
1. This Order may be cited as The Supreme Court Fees Order, 1892. It shall come into force on the 1st day of January, 1893, and shall apply to all canses and matters commenced on and after the said day, and to all proceedings taken on and after the said day in all causes and matters then pending. 2. The fees and percentages contained or referred to in the several Schedules hereto are fixed and appointed to be and shall be taken in the Supreme Court in the various jurisdictions to which the said Schedules respectively relate; and the said fees and percentages shall, except in so far as tho said Schedules provido for a payment in cash, be taken by stamps either impressed or adhesive as tho Governor may from time to time direct.
3.—All Orders and Rules of Court heretofore made for the purpose of fixing fees or percentages in the Supreme Court are hereby annulled, but this Order shall not apply to or affect existing fees or percentages directed to be taken or paid by any Ordinance except in so far as such fees or percentages are hereby expressly altero or modified.
4.-A folio comprises 72 words, each figure boing counted as a word.
SCHEDULE I.
ORIGINAL JURISDICTION.
Writ of Summons, Subpænas, and Appearance.
Sealing every Writ of Summons, for commencement of a Suit, (excopt a con- current renewed or amended Writ) and scaling a Writ of Injunction, Certiorari, Mandamus or Habeas Corpus,
Scaling a concurrent, renewed or amended Writ of Summons,
Interpleader Summons,
Soaling a Subpoena,
Scaling a Subpoænn for each Witnoss in addition to the first,
Entering an Appearance (ench Defendant),
Certifiento of Non-Appearance,
Writs of Execution, &c.
Scaling a Warrant for arrost of a Defondunt, or for arrest and detention of a
Ship or for Attachment of Property beforo Judgment,
Sealing & Writ of Execution or Writ of Possession,
Order for Release of Defendnut from Custely,
Scaling a Prohibitory Onler,
Each Copy, Prohibitory Order,
.$ 3.00
3.00
1.00
2.00
0.50
1.00
1.00
10.00
10.00
0.50
2.00
1.00
-Ordinance 12 of 1878.
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