The Delhi High Court Act, 1966

Section 6. Power to enrol legal practitioners, etc

In force · As amended up to 2026-08

6. Power to enrol legal practitioners, etc.— (1) The High Court of Delhi shall have like powers to approve, admit, enrol, remove and suspend legal practitioners, and to make rules with respect to them, as are, under the law in force immediately before the appointed day, exercisable by the High Court of Punjab. (2) The right of audience in the High Court of Delhi shall be regulated in accordance with the like principles, as, immediately before the appointed day, are in force with respect to the right of audience in the High Court of Punjab: Provided that subject to any rule made or direction given by the High Court of Delhi in the exercise of the powers conferred by this section, any person who immediately before the appointed day is an advocate entitled to practise or an attorney entitled to act in the High Court of Punjab shall be recognised as an advocate or an attorney entitled to practise or act, as the case may be, in the High Court of Delhi. — 7. Practice and procedure in the High Court of Delhi. Subject to the provisions of this Act, the law in force immediately before the appointed day with respect to practice and procedure in the High Court of Punjab shall, with the necessary modifications, apply in relation to the High Court of Delhi and accordingly the High Court of Delhi shall have all such powers to make rules and orders with respect to practice and procedure as are immediately before the appointed day exercisable by the High Court of Punjab and shall also have powers to make rules and orders with respect to practice and procedure for the exercise of its ordinary original civil jurisdiction: Provided that any rules or orders which are in force immediately before the appointed day with respect to practice and procedure in the High Court of Punjab shall, until varied or revoked by rules or orders made by the High Court of Delhi, apply with the necessary modifications in relation to practice and procedure in the High Court of Delhi as if made by that High Court. 1. Subs. by Act 23 of 2015, s. 2, for "rupees twenty lakhs" (w.e.f. 26-10-2015). — 8. Custody of the Seal of the High Court of Delhi. The law in force immediately before the appointed day with respect to the custody of the Seal of the High Court of Punjab shall, with the necessary modifications, apply with respect to the custody of the Seal of the High Court of Delhi. — 9. Form of writs and other processes. The law in force immediately before the appointed day with respect to the form of writs and other processes used, issued or awarded, by the High Court of Punjab shall, with the necessary modifications, apply with respect to the form of writs and other processes, used, issued or awarded by the High Court of Delhi.

Source: India Code