DR ANUPAM KUMAR MISHRA

Section 132 CPC Description (1) Women who, according to the customs and manners of the country, ought not to be compelled to appear in public shall be exempt from personal appearance in Court. (2) Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to exempt such women from arrest in execution of civil process in any case in which the arrest of women is not prohibited by this Code.

 Section 131 CPC Description Rules made in accordance with section 129 or section 130 shall be published in the 1[Official Gazette] and shall from the date of publication or from such other date as may be specified have the force of law. 1. Subs. by the A.O. 1937, for "Gazette of India or in the local Official Gazette, as the case may be". Strictly the substitution would read "Official Gazette or in the Official Gazette, as the case may be", but the latter words have been omitted as being redundant..

 Section 130 CPC Description 1[ A High Court 2[not being a High Court to which section 129 applies] may, with the previous approval of the State Government make with respect to any matter other than procedure any rule which a High Court 3[for a 4[***] State] might under 5[article 227 of the Constitution] make with respect to any such matter for any part of the territories under its jurisdiction which is not included within the limits of a presidency town.] 1. Subs. by the A.O. 1937, for section 130. 2. Subs. by the A.O. 1950, for "not constituted by His Majesty by Letters Patent". 3. Subs. by the A.O. 1950, for "so constituted". 4. The word and letter "Part A" omitted by the Adaptation of Laws (No. 2) Order, 1956. 5. Subs. by the A.O. 1950, for "section 224 of the Government of India Act, 1935".

 Section 129 CPC Description Notwithstanding anything in this Code, any High Court 1[not being the Court of a Judicial Commissioner] may make such rules not inconsistent with the Letters Patent 2[or Order] 3[or other law] establishing it to regulate its own procedure in the exercise of its original civil jurisdiction as it shall think fit, and nothing herein contained shall affect the validity of any such rules in force at the commencement of this Code. Comments Rules regulating procedure of High Court on its original side need not be consistent with provisions of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908; Tridium India Telecom Ltd. v. Motorola Inc., AIR 2005 SC 514. 1. Subs. by the Adaptation of Laws (No. 2) Order, 1956, for "for a Part a State or a Part B State". 2. Ins. By the A.O. 1950. 3. Ins. By Act 2 of 1951, sec. 17 (w.e.f. 1-4-1951).

 Section 128 CPC Description (1) Such rules shall be not inconsistent with the provisions in the body of this Code, but, subject thereto, may provide for any matters relating to the procedure of Civil Courts. (2) In particular, and without prejudice to the generality of the powers conferred by sub-section (1), such rules may provide for all or any of the following matters, namely :- (a) the service of summons, notices and other processes by post or in any other manner either generally or in any specified areas, and the proof of such service; (b) the maintenance and custody, while under attachment, of live-stock and other movable property, the fees payable for such maintenance and custody, the sale of such live-stock and property and the proceeds of such sale; (c) procedure in suits by way of counterclaim and the valuation of such suits for the purposes of jurisdiction; (d) procedure in garnishee and charging Order either in addition to, or in substitution for, the attachment and sale o

 Section 127 CPC Description Rules so made and 1[approved] shall be published in the 2[Official Gazette] and shall from the date of publication or from such other date as may be specified have the same force and effect, within the local limits of the jurisdiction of the High Court which made them, as if they had been contained in the First Schedule. 1. Subs. by Act 24 of 1917, sec. 2 and Sch. 1, for "sanctioned". 2. Subs. by the A.O. 1937, for "Gazette of India or in the local Official Gazette, as the case may be". Strictly the substitution would read "Official Gazette or in the Official Gazette, as the case may be", but the latter words have been omitted as being redundant.

 Section 126 CPC Description 1[ Rules made under the foregoing provisions shall be subject to the previous approval of the Government of the State in which the Court whose procedure the rules regulate is situate or, if that Court is not situate in any State, to the previous approval of 2[Central Government].] ????? 1. Subs. by the A.O. 1937, for section 126. 2. Subs. by the A.O. 1950, for ?Governor General�.