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Section 31

Disputed Elections (Prime Minister and Speaker) Ordinance, 1977Ordinance · 1977

(1) If in any order as to costs under the provisions of this Ordinance there JS a direction for payment of costs by any party to any person, such costs shall, if they have not been already paid, be paid in full, or so far as possible, out o£ the security deposit and the further security deposit, if any, made by such party under this Ordinance on an application made in writing in that behalf within a period of one year, from the date of such order lo the Election Commission by the person in whose favour the .costs have been awarded.

(2) If there is any balance left ol any oL the said security deposits after payment under sub-section (I) oi: the costs referred to in that subsection, such balance, or where no costs have been awarded or no application as aforesaid has been made within the said period of one year, the whole of the said security deposits may, on an application made in thai behalf in writing to the Election Commission by the person by whom the deposits have been made, or if such person dies after making such deposits, by the legal representative of such person, be returned to the said person or to his legal representative, as the case may be,

32. Any ordei as to costs under the provisions of this Ordinance may be produced bafore the principal civil court of original jurisdiction within the local limits of whose jurisdiction any person directed by such order to pay any sum of money has a place of residence or business, or where such place is within a presidency-town, before the court of small causes having jurisdiction there, and such court shall execute the order or cause the same to be executed in the same manner and by the same procedure as if it were a decree for the payment of money made by itself in a suit:

Provided that where any such costs or any portion thereof may be lecovcred by an application made under sub-section (1) of section 31, no application shall lie under this section within a period of one year from the date of such order unless it is for the recovery of the balance of any costs which has been left unrealised after an application has been made under that sub-section owing to the insufficiency of the amount of the security deposits referred to in that sub-section

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ActDisputed Elections (Prime Minister and Speaker) Ordinance, 1977
Section31
StatusIn force as published by the source

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