Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Magistrates' Court Act 1989 - SECT 22

Fees

22. Fees



(1) Subject to subsection (2), a registrar must demand and receive the
prescribed fees.

(2) The appropriate registrar may, having regard to the income, day to day
living expenses, liabilities and assets of the person liable to pay a
prescribed fee in a civil proceeding, waive payment of that fee if, in his or
her opinion, the payment of that fee by that person would cause him or her
financial hardship and, in that case, that prescribed fee is not payable.

(3) Subsections (1) and (2) do not apply to fees payable to the sheriff.