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Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 · Part X: Rules

Section 127 CPC: Publication of rules

Bare Act text

127. Publication of rules.—Rules so made and [approved] shall be published in the [Official Gazette], and shall from the date of publication or from such other date as may be specified have the same force and effect, within the local limits of the jurisdiction of the High Court which made them, as if they had been contained in the First Schedule.

Amendment notes

  1. Subs. by Act 24 of 1917, s. 2 and Sch. I, for “sanctioned”.
  2. Subs. by the A.O. 1937, for “Gazette of India or in the local Official Gazette, as the case may be”. Strictly the substitution would read “Official Gazette or in the Official Gazette, as the case may be, but the latter words have been omitted as being redundant”.

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

Rules made and approved under the preceding provisions must be published in the Official Gazette. From the date of publication, or any other date specified, they have the same force and effect within the local limits of the High Court's jurisdiction as if they had been contained in the First Schedule.

Part X: Rules

  1. 121 Effect of rules in First Schedule
  2. 122 Power of certain High Courts to make rules
  3. 123 Constitution of Rules Committees in certain States
  4. 124 Committee to report to High Court
  5. 125 Power of other High Courts to make rules
  6. 126 Rules to be subject to approval
  7. 127 Publication of rules
  8. 128 Matters for which rules may provide
  9. 129 Power of High Courts to make rules as to their original civil procedure
  10. 130 Powers of other High Courts to make rules as to matters other than procedure
  11. 131 Publication of rules
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