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Start Free TrialCode of Civil Procedure, 1908 Rule 1 to 3
Title: Adjournments
State: Central
Year: 1908
..... (b) no adjournment shall be granted at the request of a party, except where the circumstances are beyond the control of that party, (c) the fact that the pleader of a party is engaged in another Court, shall not be a ground for adjournment, (d) where the illness of a pleader or his inability to conduct the case for any reason, other than his being engaged in another Court, is put forward as a ground for adjournment, the Court shall not grant the adjournment unless it is satisfied that the party applying for adjournment could not have engaged another pleader in time, (e) where a witness is present in Court but a party or his pleader is not present or the party or his pleader, though present in Court, is not ready to examine or cross-examine the witness, the Court may, if it thinks fit, record the statement of the witness and pass such orders as it thinks fit dispensing with the examination-in-chief or cross-examination of the witness, as the case may be, by the party or his pleader not present or not ready as aforesaid.] 2. Procedure if parties fail to appear on day fixed Where, on any day to which the hearing of the suit is adjourned, the parties or any of them.....
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionCode of Criminal Procedure, 1973 Section 309
Title: Power to Postpone or Adjourn Proceedings
State: Central
Year: 1973
..... (a) no adjournment shall be granted at the request of a party, except where the circumstances are beyond the control of that party; (b) the fact that the pleader of a party is engaged in another Court, shall not be a ground for adjournment; (c) where a witness is present in Court but a party or his pleader is not present or the party or his pleader though present in Court, is not ready to examine or cross-examine the witness, the Court may, if thinks fit, record the statement of the witness and pass such orders as it thinks fit dispensing with the examination-in-chief or cross-examination of the witness, as the case may be.] Explanation 1 .-If sufficient evidence has been obtained to raise a suspicion that the accused may have committed an offence, and it appears likely that further evidence may be obtained by a remand, this is a reasonable cause for a remand. Explanation 2.-The terms on which an adjournment or postponement may be granted in include, in appropriate cases, the payment of costs by the prosecution or the accused. _____________________ 1. Inserted by Act 45 of 1978, section 24 (w.e.f. 18-12-1978). 2. Inserted vide Code of Criminal Procedure.....
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionManipur Municipalities Act, 1994 Section 52
Title: Adjournment of Meeting in the Absence of Quorum
State: Central
Year: 1994
(1) No business shall be transacted at a meeting unless a quorum of one-third of the total number of Councillors of a Nagar Panchayat or a Council be present: Provided that in cases where the total number of Councillors of a Nagar Panchayat or a Council is not divisible by three, the total number shall be increase by such minimum number as to make the total number divisible by three. (2) If there be no quorum present at a meeting the Chairperson or in his absence the Vice-Chairperson shall adjourn the meeting to such hour of any future day as be may reasonably fix. A notice of such adjournment shall be fixed upon a notice board in the municipal office, and the business which would have been brought before the original meeting, has there been a quorum thereat, shall be brought before the adjourned meeting and may be disposed of at such meeting or at my subsequent adjournments thereof whether there be a quorum present or not. (3) A notice of adjournment exhibited in the notice board of the municipal office on the day on which the meeting is adjourned, shall be sufficient notice of the subsequent meeting.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionKarnataka Municipalities Act, 1964 Section 56
Title: Adjournment of Meetings
State: Karnataka
Year: 1964
Subject to such rules as may be prescribed, any general meeting may, with the consent of a majority of the councillors present, be adjourned from time to time to a later hour on the same day or to any other day; but no business shall be transacted at any adjourned meeting other than that left undisposed of at the meeting from which the adjournment took place. A notice of such adjournment posted in the municipal office shall be deemed sufficient notice of the adjourned meeting.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionPUBLIC SERVANTS (INQUIRIES) ACT, 1850 Section 14
Title: Power to admit or call for new evidence for prosecution. Accused's right to adjournment
State: Central
Year: 1850
If it shall appear necessary before the close of the case for the prosecution, the commissioners may in their discretion allow the prosecutor to exhibit evidence not included in the list given to the person accused, or may themselves call for new evidence; and in such case the person accused shall be entitled to have, if he demands it, an adjournment of the proceedings for three clear days, before the exhibition of such new evidence exclusive of the day of adjournment and of the day to which the proceedings are adjourned.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionRepresentation of the People Act, 1951 Section 57
Title: Adjournment of Poll in Emergencies
State: Central
Year: 1951
(1) If at an election the proceedings at any polling station provided under section 25 or at the place fixed under sub-section (1) of section 29 for the poll are interrupted or obstructed by any riot or open violence, or if at an election it is not possible to take the poll at any polling station or such place on account of any natural calamity, or any other sufficient cause the presiding officer for such polling station or the returning officer presiding over such place, as the case may be, shall announce an adjournment of the poll to a date to be notified later, and where the poll is so adjourned by a presiding officer, he shall forthwith inform the returning officer concerned. (2) Whenever a poll is adjourned under sub-section (1), the returning officer shall immediately report the circumstances to the appropriate authority and the Election Commission and shall, as soon as may be, with the previous approval of the Election Commission appoint the day on which the poll shall recommence, and fix the polling station or place at which, and the hours during which, the poll will be taken, and shall not count the votes cast at such election until such adjourned poll shall have been.....
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionGoa, Daman and Diu (Opinion Poll) Act, 1966 [Repealed] Section 18
Title: Adjournment of Opinion Poll in Emergencies
State: Central
Year: 1966
.....the presiding officer for such polling station shall announce an adjournment of the opinion poll to a date to be notified later, and where the opinion poll is so adjourned by a presiding officer, he shall forthwith inform the opinion poll commissioner concerned. (2) Whenever an opinion poll is adjourned under sub-section (1), the opinion poll commissioner shall immediately report the circumstances to the Chief Election Commissioner and shall, as soon as may be, with the previous approval of the Chief Election Commissioner, appoint the day on which the opinion poll shall recommence and fix the polling station at which, and the hours during which, the opinion poll will be taken, and shall not count the votes cast at such opinion poll until such adjourned opinion poll shall have been completed. (3) In every such case as aforesaid, the opinion poll commissioner shall notify, in such manner as the Chief Election Commissioner may direct, the date, place and hours of polling fixed under sub-section (2).
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionBengal Bonded Warehouse Association Act, 1838 Section 15
Title: Adjournment of Ordinary Meetings
State: Central
Year: 1838
1 * * * Any ordinary general meeting of the said Association may adjourn itself to a future day, and may, on the day to which it shall have so adjourned itself, resume its proceedings, and transact any business which it would have been competent to transact on the day when it originally assembled. _________________________ 1. The words "And it is hereby enacted, that" omitted by Act 12 of 1891, section 2 and Schedule I.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionNavy Act, 1957 Section 122
Title: Adjournment
State: Central
Year: 1957
(1) A court-martial may, if it appears to the court that an adjournmentis desirable, be adjourned accordingly, but except where such an adjournment is ordered, shall sit from day to day with the exception of Sundays until the trial is concluded, unless prevented from so doing by stress of weather or unavoidable accident. (2) The proceedings of a court-martial shall not, after the commencement of a trial, be delayed by the absence of a member: Provided that not less than four members are present; and Provided further that if any member is absent from any part of the trial, he shall not thereafter take any part in the proceedings.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionLand Acquisition Act, 1894 Section 13
Title: Adjournment of Enquiry
State: Central
Year: 1894
Enquiry into measurements, value and claims and award by the Collector 13. Adjournment of enquiry.- The Collector may, for any cause he thinks fit, from time to time, adjourn the enquiry to a day to be fixed by him.
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