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Section 22: Number of peons in District and subordinate Courts

The Court-Fee ACT, 1870Union territory Act of Delhi · Act 7 of 1870

Subject to rules to be made by the High Court and approved by the State Government 2[* * *], 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 Mofussil Small Cause Courts.-And for the purpose of this section, every Court of Small Causes established under 3Act 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 Jurisdictioll of the High Courts of Judicature) shall be deemed to be subordinate to the Court of the District Judge.

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ActThe Court-Fee ACT, 1870
Section22
Marginal noteNumber of peons in District and subordinate Courts
JurisdictionUnion territory of Delhi
StatusIn force as published by the source

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