(1) The Court or a Registrar may, in a particular case for special reasons, including financial hardship, direct ¾

(a) that a fee or poundage be waived or reduced;

(b) that the whole or part of the fee or poundage be refunded; or

(c) that the payment of the whole or a part of a fee or poundage be deferred until such time, and upon such conditions, if any, as the Court or Registrar thinks fit.

(2) An application for a fee or poundage to be waived, reduced, refunded or deferred must be in the form of Schedule 4 Form 2.

(3) Schedule 4 Form 2 must be completed in accordance with the directions specified in it.

(4) A person who makes a statement or representation in an application under subregulation (2) that the person knows or has reason to believe is false or misleading in a material particular commits an offence.

Penalty: $1 000.

(5) If the fee or poundage payable by a person is waived, reduced, refunded or deferred and the person has made a statement or representation in an application under subregulation (2) that the person knows or has reason to believe is false or misleading in a material particular, so much of the fee or poundage as was waived, reduced, refunded or deferred may be recovered by the Principal Registrar in a court of competent jurisdiction as a debt due by the person to the Crown and any sum so recovered must be paid into the Consolidated Fund.