Court Fee - Centralised payment for appeals filed before SC - CBEC Instructions
THE present practice of payment of court fee by the department, as appellant or as respondent, in the appeals filed before the Supreme Court, is that the respective field formation/directorate deposits it in a decentralized manner through the Central Agency Section (Supreme Court). However, the decentralized process of payment of court fee results in avoidable delays and thus causing delays in filing of appeals or the counters, as the case may be.
CBEC has decided that the process of payment of court fee in Supreme Court would be centralized and the Directorate of Legal Affairs has been entrusted with this work. In this regard, a separate fund has been sanctioned to Directorate of Legal Affairs for the financial year 2011-12 under the head "Law Charges". The Directorate of Legal Affairs has, after working out the modalities, informed that it is now in a position to start payment of court fee in a centralized manner.
In respect of appeals filed on or after 1.9.2011 in Supreme Court the court fee would be deposited by the Directorate of Legal Affairs, CBEC.
CBEC F. No. 275/05/2011-CX.8A, Dated: August 25 2011