Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 · Part X: Rules

Section 129 CPC: Power of High Courts to make rules as to their original civil procedure

Bare Act text

129. Power of High Courts to make rules as to their original Civil procedure.—Notwithstanding anything in this Code, any High Court [not being the Court of a Judicial Commissioner] may make such rules not inconsistent with the Letters Patent [or order] [or other law] establishing it to regulate its own procedure in the exercise of its original civil jurisdiction as it shall think fit, and nothing herein contained shall affect the validity of any such rules in force at the commencement of this Code.

Amendment notes

Subs. by the Adaptation of Laws (No. 2) Order, 1956, for “for a Part A State or a Part B State”.
Ins. by the A.O. 1950.
Ins. by Act 2 of 1951, s. 17 (w.e.f. 1-4-1951).

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

Notwithstanding anything in the Code, a High Court, other than the Court of a Judicial Commissioner, may make such rules, not inconsistent with its Letters Patent or other law establishing it, as it thinks fit to regulate its own procedure in its original civil jurisdiction. The Code does not affect the validity of any such rules in force when the Code commenced.