Repealed or not in force · As amended up to 2026-08
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THE CHIEF COURT. | Section 14(2): (1) The Chief Court may make rules consistent with this Act and any other enactment for the time being in force—
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(Chapter II.—The Chief Court.—Sections 15 & 16.)
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THE CHIEF COURT. | Section 14(3): (1) The Chief Court may make rules consistent with this Act and any other enactment for the time being in force—
(3) Whoever breaks any rule made under clause (b) shall be punished with a fine which may extend to fifty rupees.
Chapter II: .
THE CHIEF COURT. | Section 14: (1) The Chief Court may make rules consistent with this Act and any other enactment for the time being in force—
14. (1) The Chief Court may make rules consistent with this Act and any other enactment for the time being in force—
(a) providing for the translation of any papers filed in the Chief Court and copying or printing
Power to refer question to full bench.
Ministerial officers.
Superintendence and control of Subordinate Courts.
Power to make rules.
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(Chapter 11.—The Chief Court.—Section 14.)
ing any such papers or translations, and requiring from the persons at whose instance or on whose behalf they are filed payment of the expenses thereby incurred;
(b) declaring what persons shall be permitted to practise as petition-writers in the Courts of the Panjáb, and regulating the conduct of persons so practising;
(c) determining in what cases persons practising in those Courts shall be permitted to address the Court in English;
(d) prescribing forms for seals to be used by those Courts;
(e) regulating the procedure in cases where any person is entitled to inspect a record of any such Court or obtain a copy of the same, and prescribing the fees payable by such persons for searches and copies;
(f) conferring and imposing on the ministerial officers of the Courts subject to its superintendence such powers and duties of a nonjudicial or quasi-judicial nature as it thinks fit, and regulating the mode in which powers and duties so conferred and imposed shall be exercised and performed;
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THE CHIEF COURT. | Section 14: (1) The Chief Court may make rules consistent with this Act and any other enactment for the time being in force—
(g) prescribing forms for such books, entries, statistics and accounts as it thinks necessary to be kept, made or compiled in those Courts or submitted to any authority;
(h) providing for the inspection of those Courts and the supervision of the working thereof; and
(i) regulating all such matters as it may think fit, with a view to promoting the efficiency of the judicial and ministerial officers of those Courts and maintaining proper discipline among those officers.
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THE CHIEF COURT. | Section 14(2): (1) The Chief Court may make rules consistent with this Act and any other enactment for the time being in force—
(2) A rule made under clause (a), (b), (c), (f) (g), (h) or (i) shall not take effect until it has been sanctioned by the Local Government and has been published in the official Gazette.
Source: India Code