Extension of time to enable public officer to make reference to Government
Suits by or against the government or public officers in their official capacity, in the First Schedule to The Code of Civil Procedure, 1908
(1) Where the defendant is a public officer and, on receiving the summons, considers it proper to make a reference to the Government before answering the plaint, he may apply to the Court to grant such extension of the time fixed in the summons as may be necessary to enable him to make such reference and to receive orders thereon through the proper channel.
(2) Upon such application the Court shall extend the time for so long as appears to it to be necessary.
How this Rule is cited
It is written both ways, and both mean this Rule: Order XXVII Rule 7 CPC and Order 27 Rule 7 CPC. Pleadings usually take the arabic form, judgments usually the numeral.
Orders of the courts under it: Order 27 Rule 7 CPC, Order XXVII Rule 7 CPC. Each opens the full-text search over every order eCourtsIndia holds.
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