12. State Government may apply for payment of court-fees.—The [State Government] shall have the right at any time to apply to the Court to make an order for the payment of court-fees under rule 10, rule 11 or [rule 11A].
Order XXXIII Rule 12 CPC: State Government may apply for payment of court-fees
Bare Act text
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.
In simple words
The State Government has the right, at any time, to apply to the Court for an order for payment of court-fees under rule 10, rule 11 or rule 11A. The State Government is therefore not dependent on the parties to seek recovery of the fees remitted because the plaintiff was permitted to sue as an indigent person.
Order XXXIII: Suits By Indigent Persons
- 1 Suits may be instituted by indigent persons
- 1A Inquiry into the means of an indigent person
- 2 Contents of application
- 3 Presentation of application
- 4 Examination of applicant
- 5 Rejection of application
- 6 Notice of day for receiving evidence of applicant’s indigency
- 7 Procedure at hearing
- 8 Procedure if application admitted
- 9 Withdrawal of permission to sue as an indigent person
- 9A Court to assign a pleader to an unrepresented indigent person
- 10 Costs where indigent person succeeds
- 11 Procedure where indigent person fails
- 11A Procedure where indigent person’s suit abates
- 12 State Government may apply for payment of court-fees
- 13 State Government to be deemed a party
- 14 Recovery of amount of court-fees
- 15 Refusal to allow applicant to sue as an indigent person to bar subsequent application of like nature
- 15A Grant of time for payment of court-fee
- 16 Costs
- 17 Defence by an indigent person
- 18 Power of Government to provide for free legal services to indigent persons