8Persons by and to whom fees payable

8 Persons by and to whom fees payable

8 Persons by and to whom fees payable

(1) Any fee charged under this Regulation for any document or service is payable to the registrar by—

(a) the person at whose request the document is filed or the service rendered, or

(b) a corporation or incorporated partnership on whose behalf a request is made to file a document or render a service.

(2) For the purposes of subclause (1), the fee specified in Schedule 1, Part 1, item 8 is taken to be payable by the person who filed the notice to produce referred to in that item.

(3) If a document is filed or a service rendered at the request of a person acting as an agent for another person, each of those persons is jointly and severally liable for payment of any fee.

(4) For the purposes only of subclause (3), a solicitor or other person by whom a person is carrying on proceedings is taken to be acting as an agent for that person.

cl 8: Am 2022 (335), Sch 4[4].