CPC Section 149 — Power to make up deficiency of court-fees

Civil

Summary

If a required court fee has not been fully paid for a document, the court has the power to allow the person who owes the fee to pay the missing amount at any point during the case. Once that payment is made, the document will be treated as if the full fee had been paid from the very beginning.

Official Text

Where the whole or any part of any fee prescribed for any document by the law for the time being in force relating to court-fees has not been paid, the Court may, in its discretion, at any stage, allow the person, by whom such fee is payable, to pay the whole or part, as the case may be, of such court-fee; and upon such payment the document, in respect of which fee is payable, shall have the same force and effect as if such fee had been paid in the first instance.