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Chapter: 484B HONG KONG COURT OF FINAL APPEAL FEES RULES

Chapter:	484B	HONG KONG COURT OF FINAL APPEAL FEES RULES	Gazette Number	Version Date

		Empowering section	L.N. 385 of 1997	01/07/1997

	(Cap 484 section 39)
		[1 July 1997]
(Originally L.N. 385 of 1997)

Rule:	1	Fees payable in Court	L.N. 385 of 1997	01/07/1997

(1): The fees specified in the Schedule are payable in connection with an appeal in the Court in respect of the matters specified.
(2): The Registrar may reduce, remit or defer payment of a fee in any particular case if he thinks fit and where he does so shall endorse on the relevant document a note of the reduction, remission or deferment and the reason therefor.

Rule:	2	Method of payment	L.N. 385 of 1997	01/07/1997

Fees shall be paid by means of adhesive stamps or by franking the relevant document.

Rule:	3	Application to HKSAR Government	L.N. 385 of 1997	01/07/1997

These Rules apply to proceedings by or against the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.

Rule:	4	Transitional provision relating to the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal Fees (Amendment) Rules 2009	L.N. 16 of 2009; L.N. 18 of 2009	02/04/2009

Where a party entitled to require any costs to be taxed has obtained an appointment to tax before the commencement* of rule 3(b) and (c) (“the amending rule”) of the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal Fees (Amendment) Rules 2009 (L.N. 16 of 2009)—

(a): nothing in the amending rule applies in relation to the taxation; and
(b): Fee Nos. 5 and 6 in the Schedule as in force immediately before the commencement of the amending rule continue to apply in relation to the taxation as if they had not been amended by the amending rule.

(L.N. 16 of 2009)

Note:

* Commencement date: 2 April 2009.

Schedule:		SCHEDULE	L.N. 16 of 2009; L.N. 18 of 2009	02/04/2009

[rules 1(1) & 4] (L.N. 16 of 2009)
Fee No.	Description	Fee $
1	On filing(a) an application for leave to appeal (b) any other originating application (c) a Notice of Appeal	1045 1045 2090

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2 (a) Copy of documents typed in the Registry, per page 36

(b): Additional copies, per page 4 3 (a) Photostatic copy of a document made in the Registry, per page 4

5 On filing a notice of commencement of taxation under Order 62, rule 21(1) of the Rules of the High Court (Cap 4 sub. leg. A) (as applied by rule 57 of the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal Rules (Cap 484 sub. leg. A)), for every $100 or fraction of $100 of the amount claimed-

(L.N. 16 of 2009)

(a): for the first $100000 6
(b): for the next $150000 4
(c): for the next $250000 3
(d): for the remainder 1

6 Withdrawal of a bill of costs within 7 days after the application for 10% of the taxing fee setting down the taxation under Order 62, rule 21A(1) of the Rules of which would be payable if the High Court (Cap 4 sub. leg. A) (as applied by rule 57 of the Hong the bill was to be allowed Kong Court of Final Appeal Rules (Cap 484 sub. leg. A)) is made in full or $1000 whichever

(L.N. 16 of 2009) is the less 7 Authentication of document by the Registrar 125

(L.N. 336 of 2000; L.N. 24 of 2001)

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