Section 22: Number of peons in District and subordinate Courts.
The Court-Fees Act, 1870Central Act · Act 7 of 1870
Subject to rules to be made by the High Court and approved by the State Government ***,
every District Judge and every Magistrate of a district shall fix, and may from time to time alter, the number of peons necessary to be employed for the service and execution of processes issued out of his Court and each of the Courts subordinate thereto,
Number of peons in Mufassal Small Cause Courts.-- aand for the purposes of this section, every Court of Small Causes established under Act No. 11 of 1865 (to consolidate and amend the law relating to Courts of Small Causes beyond the local limits of the ordinary original civil jurisdiction of the High Courts of Judicature) shall be deemed to be subordinate to the Court of the District Judge.
Number of peons in District and subordinate Courts.
Jurisdiction
Central
Status
In force as published by the source
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 "and the Governor General of India in Council" omitted by Act 38 of 1920, s. 2 and the First Schedule.
other, Act 11 of 1865. . The reference to Act 11 of 1865 should now be read as referring to the Provincial Small Cause Courts Act, 1887 (9 of 1887); see s. 2(3) of that Act.
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