Repealed or not in force · As amended up to 2026-08
CHAPTER VII.
`94).` The Judicial Commissioner may from time to Power to time make rules regulating the fees payable to practi- ~~~~~~ tioners and the control and taxation of costs in his own Court and in Courts subordinate to him.
The Recorder of Rangoon may from time to time make rules regulating the fees payable to practitioners and the control and taxation of costs in his own Court and in Courts subordinate to him.
And the Special Court may from time to time make rules regulating the fees payable to practi-
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tioners and the control and taxation of costs in such Court.
Power to 91. The Judicial Commissioner, the Recorder of malro rulos for recording Rangoon, and the Judges of the Special COUP^ lnay judgments, respectively make rules to provide for.
Power to 91. malro rulos for recording judgments, taking down evidence and (a) $7;;;;: of orders and sentences :
(a) the recording of their respective judgments, orders and sentences : (6) the taking down in their respective Courts of the evidence of witnesses ; and
(c) the admission in their respective Courts of affidavits as evidence of the matters to which such affidavits respectively relate.
And the Chief Commissioner, on being satisfied that such rules provide sufficiently for the matters to which they respectively refer, may exempt the Judicial C~mmissione~, the Recorder, or the Special Court (as the case may be) from the operation of such parts of the Code of Civil Procedure and the Code of Criminal Procedure as relate to tlie mode of recording judgments, orders and sentences and of taking down the evidence of witnesses, and may permit the admission of affidavits as evidence of the matters aforesaid.
powel, to ex. empt from provisions of Procedure Codes relating such subjects,
find to permitadmission of affidavits. firnunera~ ~ n at desire of suitor.
92. If any assessor is appointed under section thirty-three or section fifty at the desire of the par- ~ ~ ~ n e ~ ~ ~ ties, or any of them, such parties OF parby shall deposit such sum as the Judicial Commissioner or Recorder, as the case may be, decides to be reasonable coinpensation ts such assessor for his .time and trouble. Such suin shall be recoverable as costs in the cause.
93. Instead of the last paragraph of section ' 9 seven of the Prisoners' Testimony Act, 1869, the following shall be read :-
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"For the purposes of this Act, every jail in British Buriua slia~ll be deeined to be situate within the local limits of the appellate jurisdiction of tlie Jtidicikl Coii~missioncr ; miid the Reco~def of Rangoon may issue oiclers, ;luzdcr t,llis ^section or scctioiis three
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OF four, and may also issue commissions under Payt 111 of this Act, in any jail in British Burma."
94. Notwithstanding anything oontained in Act Powor8 Small Cause of Small Cause of No. X I of 1865, section fifteen, the Government of court Judge India shall have, and be deemed to have had, power in Rangoon. from time to time to invest any person with the powers of a Judge of the Court of Small Causes in the Town of Rangoon, or elsewhere in British Burma, without specifying any time during which he shall exercise such pomTers. And all persons so invested shall be deemed to have been duly invested under the same section.
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Source: India Code