First Schedule · Order 33

Suits by Indigent Persons

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

1. Rule 1: Suits may be instituted by indigent persons
2. Rule 1A: Inquiry into the means of an indigent person
3. Rule 2: Contents of application
4. Rule 3: Presentation of application
5. Rule 4: Examination of applicant
6. Rule 5: Rejection of application
7. Rule 6: Notice of day for receiving evidence of applicant’s indigency
8. Rule 7: Procedure at hearing
9. Rule 8: Procedure if application admitted
10. Rule 9: Withdrawal of permission to sue as an indigent person
11. Rule 9A: Court to assign a pleader to an unrepresented indigent person
12. Rule 10: Costs where indigent person succeeds
13. Rule 11: Procedure where indigent person fails
14. Rule 11A: Procedure where indigent person’s suit abates
15. Rule 12: State Government may apply for payment of court-fees
16. Rule 13: State Government to be deemed a party
17. Rule 14: Recovery of amount of court-fees
18. Rule 15: Refusal to allow applicant to sue as an indigent person to bar subsequent application of like nature
19. Rule 15A: Grant of time for payment of court-fee
20. Rule 16: Costs
21. Rule 17: Defence by an indigent person
22. Rule 18: Power of Government to provide for free legal services to indigent persons

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