First Schedule — Order XXXIII: Suits by Indigent Persons

Order 33 Rule 9A — Court to assign a pleader to an unrepresented indigent person

Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 · Free to read

(1) Where a person, who is permitted to sue as an indigent person, is not represented by a pleader, the Court-may, if the circumstances of the case so require, assign a pleader to him.

(2) The High Court may, with the previous approval of the State Government, make rules providing for —

(a) the mode of selecting pleaders to be assigned under sub-rule (1);

(b) the facilities to be provided to such pleaders by the Court;

(c) any other matter which is required to be or may be provided by the rules for giving effect to the provisions of sub-rule (1).