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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.
Title.
Regulation Board Regulations.
Fees payable to 
advocates and legal 
procurators for 
proceedings before 
the Rent 
Regulation Board.
Cap. 116.
2. 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 one lira;
(ii) in respect of any other tenement, a fee equal to
one month’s rent or a fee of two liri, 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 five liri,
whichever shall be the greater amount;
Cap. 12.
( 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.
Registry fees.
Added by:
L.N. 141 of 2000.
3. The registry fees established in the Tariff annexed to these
regulations shall be paid together with the filing of the relative act
of procedure.
Added by:
L.N. 141 of 2000.
Amended by:
L.N. 198 of 2000.
TARIFF
Registry fees payable in the Rent Regulation Board
1 For the filing of any claim ......................................... Lm 15
2 For the filing of any reply .......................................... Lm 10
3 For the filing of any application of appeal ................. Lm 30
4 For the filing of an answer to an application of
appeal ........................................................................ Lm 20
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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 ........................................... Lm 2.50
(ii) fee due to the executive officer effecting
the service ............................................. Lm 0.50
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 ............................................ Lm 20
(ii) fee due to the executive officer effecting
the service ............................................. Lm 3
(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 ........ Lm 5
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 ............................................ Lm 50
(ii) fee due to attending deputy registrar ...... Lm 20
(iii) fee due to each executive officer
required to effect service ....................... Lm 15
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 Lm 100 and not more than Lm 250 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 Lm 1.
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.
