(1) The amount of fee as indicated in column (3) of the Table below against memorandum of appeal, application for revision, review or any other application or petition as described in column (2) of such Table shall be payable when such memorandum is presented or such application or petition is filed.
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Provided that no fee shall be payable for filing any objection, written or verbal, made in reply to any notice served under the provisions of the Act or the rules made thereunder or for filing any application requiring information from any person appointed under the Act.
(2) Fees payable under this rule shall be paid either in court fee stamp or into the Reserve Bank of India or to the appropriate Government Treasury in the manner laid down in rule 168 and such court fee stamp evidencing payment of such fee shall be affixed, or one copy of the challan referred to in sub-rule (4) of rule 168 or one copy of the receipt referred to in the first proviso to rule 157 evidencing payment of such fee, shall be annexed, to the memorandum, application or petition, as the case may be.
(3) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-rule (1) no fee shall be payable when memorandum is presented or application for revision or review is made by the Commissioner, Additional Commissioner, Senior Joint Commissioner, Joint Commissioner or Deputy Commissioner to the Appellate and Revisional Board under the provisions of the Act or the rules made thereunder.