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

Order XXXIII Rule 15A CPC: Grant of time for payment of court-fee

Bare Act text

[15A. Grant of time for payment of court-fee.—Nothing contained in rule 5, rule 7 or rule 15 shall prevent a Court, while rejecting an application under rule 5 or refusing an application under rule 7, from granting time to the applicant to pay the requisite court-fee within such time as may be fixed by the Court or extended by it from time to time; and upon such payment and on payment of the costs referred to in * * * rule 15 within that time, the suit shall be deemed to have been instituted on the date on which the application for permission to sue as an indigent person was presented.]

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

When rejecting an application under rule 5 or refusing it under rule 7, the Court may grant the applicant time, fixed or extended from time to time, to pay the requisite court-fee. On payment, and on payment of the costs mentioned in rule 15 within that time, the suit is deemed to have been instituted on the date the application for permission to sue as an indigent person was presented.

Order XXXIII: Suits By Indigent Persons

  1. 1 Suits may be instituted by indigent persons
  2. 1A Inquiry into the means of an indigent person
  3. 2 Contents of application
  4. 3 Presentation of application
  5. 4 Examination of applicant
  6. 5 Rejection of application
  7. 6 Notice of day for receiving evidence of applicant’s indigency
  8. 7 Procedure at hearing
  9. 8 Procedure if application admitted
  10. 9 Withdrawal of permission to sue as an indigent person
  11. 9A Court to assign a pleader to an unrepresented indigent person
  12. 10 Costs where indigent person succeeds
  13. 11 Procedure where indigent person fails
  14. 11A Procedure where indigent person’s suit abates
  15. 12 State Government may apply for payment of court-fees
  16. 13 State Government to be deemed a party
  17. 14 Recovery of amount of court-fees
  18. 15 Refusal to allow applicant to sue as an indigent person to bar subsequent application of like nature
  19. 15A Grant of time for payment of court-fee
  20. 16 Costs
  21. 17 Defence by an indigent person
  22. 18 Power of Government to provide for free legal services to indigent persons
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