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THE FIRST SCHEDULE · ORDER XXXIII Suits by indigent persons

Order XXXIII Rule 8: Procedure if application admitted

The Code of Civil Procedure, 1908

Where the application is granted, it shall be numbered and registered, and shall be deemed the plaint in the suit, and the suit shall proceed in all other respects as a suit instituted in the ordinary manner, except that the plaintiff shall not be liable to pay any court-fee 1[or fees payable for service of process] in respect of any petition, appointment of a pleader or other proceeding connected with the suit.

Footnotes in the official text

  1. 1.Subs. by s. 81, ibid., for “other than fees pay able for service of process” (w.e.f. 1-2-1977).

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