Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 · Order XXXIII: Suits By Indigent Persons

Order XXXIII Rule 15 CPC: Refusal to allow applicant to sue as an indigent person to bar subsequent application of like nature

Bare Act text

15. Refusal to allow applicant to sue as [an indigent person] to bar subsequent application of like nature.—An order refusing to allow the applicant to sue as [an indigent person] shall be a bar to any subsequent application of the like nature by him in respect of the same right to sue; but the applicant shall be at liberty to institute a suit in the ordinary manner in respect of such right;

[provided that the plaint shall be rejected if he does not pay, either at the time of the institution of the suit or within such time thereafter as the Court may allow,] the costs (if any) incurred by the [State Government] and by the opposite party in opposing his application for leave to sue as [an indigent person].

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

An order refusing permission to sue as an indigent person bars any later application of the same kind by him for the same right to sue, but he remains free to institute a suit in the ordinary manner. The plaint in that suit must be rejected unless he pays, at institution or within the time the Court allows, the costs incurred by the State Government and the opposite party in opposing his application.