Section 118: Costs and fees of Official Receiver

118. Costs and fees of Official Receiver (1) (a) The fees as fixed by Schedule A to Legal Fees and Costs Rules 2000 shall be levied by the Official Receiver out of the debtor’s estate and shall be paid into the Consolidated Fund. (b) Such fees shall be paid by privilege as provided in section 41. (2) Subject to subsection (3), necessary disbursements made by the Official Receiver when acting under this Act (the amount of these disbursements shall be settled by the Court) shall be paid out of the estate, if sufficient, and otherwise shall be payable by the petitioning creditor and recoverable upon a certificate of the Registrar of the amount allowed by the Court. (3) The President may remit the whole or part of the costs payable by the petitioning creditor under this subsection. [S. 118 reprinted by Reprint 2 of 1985; amended by Act 6 of 1985; Act 29 of 1990; Act 48 of 1991; Act 15 of 2000.]