Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 · Part X: Rules

Section 122 CPC: Power of certain High Courts to make rules

Bare Act text

122. Power of certain High Courts to make rules.—[High Courts [not being the Court of a Judicial Commissioner]] * * * 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.

Amendment notes

Subs. by the A.O. 1950, for “Courts which are High Courts for the purposes of the Government of India Act, 1935”.
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 (w.e.f. 1-4-1951).
The words “and the Chief Court of Lower Burma” rep. by Act 11 of 1923, s. 3 and Sch . II.

Text of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (Act No. 5 of 1908), as amended, including the changes for commercial disputes made by the Commercial Courts Act, 2015. Source: India Code, Government of India.

In simple words

Certain High Courts may, from time to time and after previous publication, make rules regulating their own procedure and the procedure of the Civil Courts subject to their superintendence. By such rules they may annul, alter or add to all or any of the rules in the First Schedule. This is the source of High Court amendments to the First Schedule.