BAR COUNCIL OF INDIA RULES

ADVOCATES ACT, 1961 95

3.(a) Every application of an authenticated copy of any certificate, order of other proceedings, entry on any roll, or any document or deposition in any proceeding, before a State Councilor the Council or a Committee thereof shall be accompanied by a fee of Rs. 10/­and the copying charges as follows:

Every exemplification of the order or other documents in

addition to the folio and other charges.Rs.20/.

Copying charges for folio   Rs 10/-

A folio shall be deemed to consist of two hundred words, seven figures shall be counted as one word, and more than half a folio shall be reckoned as a folio.

(b) In any proceedings, summons to witness shall only be issued on payment of the requisite batta and/ or charges according to the rates prescribed by the High Court, the case of State Council, and the Supreme Court in the case of the Councilor Committee there of as the case may be.

(c) Every interlocutory application, including a petition for excusing delay or for obtaining stay for proceedings of a Disciplinary Committee shall be accompanied by a fee of Rs. 25/- in the case of the Disciplinary Committee of a State Council and a fee of Rs.25/. in the case of the Disciplinary Committee of the Council.

(d) An application by a party to the proceedings for unattested copies of depositions of witnesses may be supplied at the rate of Rs. 5/- for each page of the deposition.

1[4. (a) Application for transfer from one State Bar Council to another

State Bar Council

(b) Preparation charges of file and other papers regarding transfer of

name by transferor and transferee Bar Councils.

RESUMPTION OF PRACTICE

5. For resumption of practice as an Advocate, an applicant shall have to pay a sum of Rs. 500/- in favour of the State Bar Council and Rs. 100/- in favour of the Bar Council of India by way of separate Bank Drafts drawn in favour of the respective Bar Councils.

PART IX

GENERAL PRINCIPLES TO BE FOLLOWED BY STATE BAR COUNCILS AND THE BAR COUNCIL OF INDIA RULES FOR SUPERVISION AND CONTROL BY THE BAR COUNCIL OF INDIA

(Rules under Section 49(a),(i) and (j) of the Act)

ELECTION

1.The election of members of State Councils shall only be by secret ballot. There shall be no voting by post except that a State Council may permit voting by post to Advocates eligible to vote and who do not ordinarily practise at the seat of the High Court or the seat of any of the District Courts in the State.

Explanation:An Advocate shall be deemed ordinarily to practise at the place which is given in his address in the Electoral Roll.

1 Substituted vide Resolution No. 116/2001 as published in the Gazette of India, dt. 5-1-2002.