Section 122. Power of certain High Courts to make rules

Code of Civil Procedure Section 121. Effect of rules in First Schedule.

Bare Act:

122. Power of certain High Courts to make rules.—¹[High Courts ²[not being the Court of a Judicial Commissioner]] ³*** may, from time to time after previous publication, make rules regulating their own procedure and the procedure of the Civil Courts subjects to their superintendence, and may by such rules annul, alter or add to all or any of the rules in the First Schedule.

Note: 1. Subs. by the A.O. 1950, for “Courts which arc High Courts for the purposes of the Government of India Act, 1935”.

2. Subs. by the Adaptation of Laws (No. 2) Order, 1956, for “for Part A States and Part B States”. The words in italics were ins. by Act 2 of 1951, s. 15.

3. The words “and the Chief Court of Lower Burma” rep. by Act 11 of 1923, s. 3 and the Second Schedule.

Code of Civil Procedure Section 123. Constitution of Rule Committees in certain States.

Section 122 of the Code empowers the High Court to amend the Rules, i.e., the procedure laid down in the Orders and every High Court had amended the procedure from time to time making the amendments in the said Orders.