Section 19G:
Executors, etc., not paying full court-fee on probates, etc., within six months after discovery of underpayment.
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[19G. Executors, etc., not paying full court-fee on probates, etc., within six months
after discovery of under-payment.—Where too low a court-fee has been paid on any probate or
letters of administration in consequence of any mistake, or of its not being known at the time that some
particular part of the estate belonged to the deceased, if any executor or administrator acting under such
probate or letters does not, within six months 2
*** after the discovery of the mistake or of any effects not
known at the time to have belonged to the deceased, apply to the said Authority and pay what is wanting
to make up the court-fee which ought to have been paid at first on such probate or letters, he shall forfeit
the sum of one thousand rupees and also a further sum at the rate of ten per cent. on the amount of the
sum wanting to make up the proper court-fee.]
Notes:
1. As to recovery of penalties or forfeitures under s. 19G, see s. 19J, infra.
2. The words and figures "after the first day of April, 1875, or "rep. by Act 12 of 1891, s. 3 and the First Schedule.