Section 143: Postage.

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

Postage, where chargeable on a notice, summons or letter issued under this Code and forwarded by post, and the fee for registering the same, shall be paid within a time to be fixed before the communication is made:

Provided that the State Government *** may remit such postage, or fee, or both, or may prescribe a scale of court-fees to be levied in lieu thereof.

Where this provision sits

Act	The Code of Civil Procedure, 1908
Section	143
Marginal note	Postage.
Jurisdiction	Central
Status	In force as published by the source
Judgments citing it	3

How this provision has been amended

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

omitted, Act 38 of 1920. . The words "with the previous sanction of the G.G, in C." omitted by Act 38 of 1920, s 2 and the First Schedule I, Pt. I

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