Section 129: Power of High Courts to make rules as to their original Civil procedure.

The Code of Civil Procedure, 1908Central Act · Act 5 of 1908

Notwithstanding anything in this Code, any High Court [not being the Court of a Judicial Commissioner] may make such rules not inconsistent with the Letters Patent [or order] [or other law] establishing it to regulate its own procedure in the exercise of its original civil jurisdiction as it shall think fit, and nothing herein contained shall affect the validity of any such rules in force at the commencement of this Code.

Where this provision sits

Act	The Code of Civil Procedure, 1908
Section	129
Marginal note	Power of High Courts to make rules as to their original Civil procedure.
Jurisdiction	Central
Status	In force as published by the source

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Taken from the footnotes printed with the provision by the source. Where a footnote names the amending instrument, it is quoted as printed.

substituted. . Subs. by the Adaptation of Laws (No. 2) Order, 1956, for "for a Part A State or a Part B State".
inserted. . Ins. by the A.O. 1950.
inserted, Act 2 of 1951. . Ins. by Act 2 of 1951, s. 17 (w.e.f. 1-4-1951).

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