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First Schedule · Order 16

Summoning and Attendance of Witnesses

Rules restart their numbering within each Order. Rule 1 of this Order is not CPC Section 1.

  1. Rule 1: List of witnesses and summons to witnesses
  2. Rule 1A: Production of witnesses without summons
  3. Rule 2: Expenses of witness to be paid into Court on applying for summons
  4. Rule 3: Tender of expenses to witness
  5. Rule 4: Procedure where insufficient sum paid in
  6. Rule 5: Time, place and purpose of attendance to be specified in summons
  7. Rule 6: Summons to produce document
  8. Rule 7: Power to require persons present in Court to give evidence or produce document
  9. Rule 7A: Summons given to the party for service
  10. Rule 8: Summons how served
  11. Rule 9: Time for serving summons
  12. Rule 10: Procedure where witness fails to comply with summons
  13. Rule 11: If witness appears, attachment may be withdrawn
  14. Rule 12: Procedure if witness fails to appear
  15. Rule 13: Mode of attachment
  16. Rule 14: Court may of its own accord summon as witnesses strangers to suit
  17. Rule 15: Duty of persons summoned to give evidence or produce document
  18. Rule 16: When they may depart
  19. Rule 17: Application of rules 10 to 13
  20. Rule 18: Procedure where witness apprehended cannot give evidence or produce document
  21. Rule 19: No witness to be ordered to attend in person unless resident within certain limits
  22. Rule 20: Consequence of refusal of party to give evidence when called on by Court
  23. Rule 21: Rules as to witnesses to apply to parties summoned

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