3. Expenses to be paid into Court.—(1) Before making any order under rule 2, the Court shall require the party at whose instance or for whose benefit the order is to be issued, to pay into Court such sum of money as appears to the Court to be sufficient to defray the expenses of the execution of the order, including the travelling and other expenses of the escort provided for the witness.
(2) Where the Court is subordinate to a High Court, regard shall be had, in fixing the scale of such expenses, to any rules made by the High Court in that behalf.
Text of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (Act No. 5 of 1908), First Schedule, as amended, including the changes for commercial disputes made by the Commercial Courts Act, 2015. Source: India Code, Government of India.
Before making an order under rule 2, the Court must require the party at whose instance or for whose benefit the order is to be issued to pay into Court a sum sufficient to defray the expenses of carrying out the order, including the travelling and other expenses of the escort provided for the witness. Where the Court is subordinate to a High Court, regard is had to any rules made by the High Court on the scale of expenses.
