Section 19G. Executors, etc., not paying full court-fee on probates, etc., within six months after discovery of under-payment

2[ 19G. Executors, etc., not paying full court-fee on probates, etc., within six months after discovery of under-payment.— Where too low a court-fee has been paid on any probate or letters of administration in consequence of any mistake, or of its not being known at the time that some particular part of the estate belonged to the deceased, if any executor or administrator acting under such probate or letters does not, within six months[3] * after the discovery of the mistake or of any effects not known at the time to have belonged to the deceased, apply to the said Authority and pay what is wanting to make up the court-fee which ought to have been paid at first on such probate or letters, he shall forfeit the sum of one thousand rupees and also a further sum at the rate of ten percent. on the amount of the sum wanting to make up the proper court-fee.] 4 [ 19H. Notice of applications for probate or letters of administration to be given to Revenue-authorities, and procedure thereon.— (1) Where an application for probate or letters of administration is made to any Court other than a High Court, the Court shall cause notice of the application to be given to the Collector. (2) Where such an application as aforesaid is made to a High Court, the High Court shall cause notice of the application to be given to the Chief Controlling Revenue-authority[5] [for the local area in which the High Court is situated]. (3) The Collector within the local limits of whose revenue-jurisdiction the property of the deceased or any part thereof is, may at any time inspect or cause to be inspected, and take or cause to be taken copies of, the record of any case in which application for probate or letters of administration has been made; and if, on such inspection or otherwise, he is of opinion that the petitioner has under-estimated the value of the property of the deceased, the Collector may, if he thinks fit, require the attendance of the 1. Subs. by Act 10 of 1901, s. 3(1), for "of the Province".