Agent to accept service
Recognized Agents and Pleaders, in the First Schedule to The Code of Civil Procedure, 1908
(1) Besides the recognized agents described in rule 2 any person residing within the jurisdiction of the Court may be appointed an agent to accept service of process.
(2) Appointment to be in writing and to be filed in Court.--Such appointment may be special or general and shall be made by an instrument in writing signed by the principal, and such instrument or, if the appointment is general, a certified copy thereof shall be filed in Court.
1 [(3) The Court may, at any stage of the suit, order any party to the suit not having a recognised agent residing within the jurisdiction of the Court, or a pleader who has been duly appointed to act in the Court on his behalf, to appoint, within a specified time, an agent residing within the jurisdiction of the Court to accept service of the process on his behalf.]
1. Ins. by s. 54, ibid, (w.e.f. 1-2-1977).
How this Rule is cited
It is written both ways, and both mean this Rule: Order III Rule 6 CPC and Order 3 Rule 6 CPC. Pleadings usually take the arabic form, judgments usually the numeral.
Orders of the courts under it: Order 3 Rule 6 CPC, Order III Rule 6 CPC. Each opens the full-text search over every order eCourtsIndia holds.
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