FEES OF THE RENT REGULATION BOARD REGULATIONS

FEES OF THE RENT REGULATION BOARD

SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 69.02

FEES OF THE RENT REGULATION BOARD

REGULATIONS

1st October, 1993

LEGAL NOTICE 155 of 1996, as amended by Legal Notices 141 and 198

of 2000, and 408 of 2007; and Act XIII of 2015.

The title of these regulations is Fees of the Rent Regulation

Board Regulations.

There shall be payable to an advocate or legal procurator

for any proceedings before the Rent Regulation Board -

(a)

in the case of assessment of rent -

(i)

in respect of a dwelling-house let as unfurnished

which is an old house within the meaning of

article 2 of the Rent Restriction (Dwelling

Houses) Ordinance, and in which no structural

alteration and/or addition has been made after

the 1st day of April, 1939, a fee of two euros and

thirty-three cents (2.33);

(ii) in respect of any other tenement, a fee equal to

one month’s rent or a fee of four euros and sixty-

six cents (4.66), whichever shall be the greater

amount;

(b) in any case for the resuming of possession of premises,

a fee equal to one month’s rent or a fee of eleven euros

and sixty-five cents (11.65), whichever shall be the

greater amount;

(c) in respect of any act filed before the said Board, not

being an application filed in accordance with articles

7, 8, 14 or 41, or a reply filed in accordance with

article 29, a fee chargeable in accordance with Tariff E

of Schedule A annexed to the Code or Organization

and Civil Procedure.

The registry fees established in the Tariff annexed to these

regulations shall be paid together with the filing of the relative act

of procedure.

TARIFF

Registry fees payable in the Rent Regulation Board

1 For the filing of any claim .........................................

€40.00

2 For the filing of any reply ..........................................

€25.00

3 For the filing of any application of appeal .................

€80.00

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4 For the filing of an answer to an application of

appeal ........................................................................

€50.00

5 The fees established in paragraphs 1 to 4 of this

Tariff shall include the filing of all other acts of

procedure and services (including but not limited to

filing of warrants for the examination of witnesses,

the examination itself, recording fees, transcriptions

and copies, the services of judicial assistants, decrees

and declarations prior to definitive judgement, taxed

bill of costs and copies of the judgement) required

following the initiation of the cause through the said

act up to and including final judgement but

excluding any fees due for notification of the acts of

procedure or any fees due to referees or experts

appointed by the Board or any fees which the Board

may be required to pay to third parties.

6 (1) No fee shall be levied for the filing of any note

of admission of a claim provided that the claim is

admitted in full and unconditionally before any

contestation thereon.

(2) Any counter-claim contained in any act of

procedure shall be treated as if it is a new claim and

the fees set out in paragraphs 1 to 4 shall be levied on

the counter claim and the reply thereto.

(3) The fees stated in paragraphs 1 to 4 shall also be

due on the filing of any application to the Board to

be permitted to file any statement of defence, answer

or other act of procedure filed in reply to a claim and

intended to contest, whether totally or partially, a

claim made.

7 (1) For every notification of an act of procedure,

including expenses incurred in the execution of such

notification, the following fees shall be due, for each

notification

(i)

registry fee ...........................................

€6.00

(ii) fee due to the executive officer effecting

the service .............................................

€1.20

Provided that if service is to be effected outside

normal working hours, the fees contained in this

paragraph shall be increased by 100%.

(2) Notwithstanding anything contained in this

Tariff if the service of any act is to be executed

personally by an executive officer of the Board, in

cases where the law permits that service be effected

otherwise, the following additional fees shall be due

(i)

registry fee ............................................

€25.00

(ii) fee due to the executive officer effecting

the service .............................................

€7.00

(3) The fees established in sub-paragraph (2) shall

not apply when service is to be effected personally

by an executive officer of the Board in terms of any

law, and in such cases the fees established in sub-

paragraph (1) of this paragraph shall apply.

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8 For any other act of procedure indicated in the

Reletting of Urban Property (Regulation) Ordinance

but for which no fee is established in this Tariff ........

Provided that fees for services not specifically

provided for in this Tariff but provided for in other

Tariffs contained in the Code of Organization and

Civil Procedure shall be taxed according to those

Tariffs.

9 For the opening of the registry outside working

hours

(i)

registry fee ............................................

(ii) fee due to attending deputy registrar ......

(iii) fee due to each executive officer

required to effect service .......................

10 (1) The Board may, when delivering judgement,

order that the plaintiff or defendant in a cause pay

increased costs to the Registrar of Courts of not less

than €232.94 and not more than €582.34 if the Board

deems that the act of procedure initiating the claim

or the act of procedure in reply was frivolous or

vexatious or that either of the parties has

unnecessarily prolonged the proceedings and in such

case such sum will not be recoverable from the other

party.

No appeal shall lie from the decision of the Board.

(2) The Board may, when delivering judgement,

also refer to the Commission for the Administration

of Justice the advocate of the plaintiff or of the

defendant if the Board deems that the advocate is

responsible, wholly or partly, for the frivolous or

vexatious act of procedure or for prolonging the

proceedings.

No appeal shall lie from the decision of the Board.

11 (1) All fees due shall be paid together with the

filing of the relative act and the Registrar shall not

accept for filing any act of procedure, which is not

accompanied by the relative fee.

(2) The assessment of the Registrar on the amount

of fees to be paid shall be final.

(3) In assessing the fees laid down in this Tariff no

account shall be taken of any fraction of €2.33.

12 (1) The Registrar shall cause a taxed bill of costs to

be kept in the file of each cause and shall

immediately enter therein all payments made to the

Registrar and all payments due to the advocates and

legal procurators of the parties and the parties and

their advocates and legal procurators shall have the

right to a copy thereof at any time.

(2) Within one month of the delivery of the

definitive judgement, the Registrar shall cause a

final taxed bill of costs to be drawn up.