Civil Process (Table of Fees for Execution) Amendment Rules 2015


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Civil Process (Table of Fees for Execution) Amendment Rules 2015
10 December 2015

We, the Honourable Alan Michael Blow, OAM, Chief Justice, and the Honourable Shan Eve Tennent, the Honourable David James Porter, the Honourable Helen Marie Wood, the Honourable Stephen Peter Estcourt and the Honourable Robert William Pearce, Puisne Judges of the Supreme Court of Tasmania, on the recommendation of the Rule Committee, make the following Rules of Court under the Civil Process Act 1870 .

1.   Short title

These Rules of Court may be cited as the Civil Process (Table of Fees for Execution) Amendment Rules 2015 .

2.   Commencement

These Rules of Court take effect on the seventh day after the day on which their making is notified in the Gazette.

3.   Schedule 1 amended (Table of Fees for Execution of Civil Process)

Schedule 1 to the Civil Process (Table of Fees for Execution) Rules 1991 is amended by inserting the following item after item 6:

7. 

For a levy or seizure by the Sheriff –

 
 

(a) in respect of a debt not exceeding $20 000

$310

 

(b) in respect of a debt exceeding $20 000

$620

 

(c) in respect of a writ of execution that is otherwise than in respect of a debt

$620

A M BLOW

Chief Justice

S E TENNENT

Puisne Judge

D J PORTER

Puisne Judge

H M WOOD

Puisne Judge

S P ESTCOURT

Puisne Judge

R W PEARCE

Puisne Judge

Countersigned,

J A CONNOLLY

Registrar

Displayed and numbered in accordance with the Rules Publication Act 1953.

Notified in the Gazette on 16 December 2015

These Rules of Court are administered in the Department of Justice.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the rule)

These Rules of Court amend the Civil Process (Table of Fees for Execution) Rules 1991 to prescribe the fee payable to the Sheriff of the Supreme Court for a levy or seizure by the Sheriff in respect of a debt or in respect of a writ of execution.