JCP Rules 4
धारा 4 · Place of sitting and other matters relating to District Forum
अक्षर आकार — स्तर 1, कुल 4 में से
(1)
The office of the District Forum shall be located at the old divisional head-quarters namely Patna, Ranchi, Bhagalpur and Muzaffarpur. Where State Government decides to establish a single District Forum having jurisdiction over more than one district, it shall notify the place and jurisdiction of the District Forum so established.(2)
The working days of the District Forum shall be notified by the State Government from time to time.(3)
The Official seal and emblem of the District Forum shall be such as the State Government may specify.(4)
Sitting of the District Forum, as and when necessary, shall be convened by the President as provided in sub-rule (2).(5)
No act or proceedings of the District Forum shall be invalid by reason only of the existence of any vacancy among its members or any defect in its constitution.(6)
State Government shall appoint such staff, as may be necessary to assist the District Forum in its day-to-day work and perform such other functions as are provided under these rules, or assigned to it by the President. The salary payable to such staff shall be defrayed out of the Consolidated Fund of the State Government.(7)
Where admission of facts have been made either in the pleading or otherwise, whether orally or in writing the District Forum may at any stage of the case, either on the application of any party or of its own motion and without waiting for the determination of any other question between the parties, make such order or decide the complaint as it may think fit, having regard to such admissions.(8)
If during the proceedings conducted under Section 13, District Forum fixes date for hearing of the parties, it shall be obligatory on the complainant and opposite party or its authorised agent to appear before the District Forum on such date of hearing or any other to which hearing is adjourned. Where the complainant or his authorised agent fails to appear before the District Forum on such day, District Forum may in its discretion either dismiss the complaint for default or decide it on merits. Where the opposite party or its authorised agent fails to appear on the day of hearing, the District Forum may decide the complaint ex-parte.(9)
While proceeding under sub-rule (8), the District Forum may, on such terms as it may think fit and at any stage, adjourn the hearing of the complaint but not more than one adjournment shall ordinarily be given and the complaint should be decided within 90 days from the date of notice received by the opposite party where complaint does not require analysis or testing of the goods and within 150 days if it requires analysis or testing of the goods.(10)
Orders of the District Forum shall be signed and dated by the members of the District Forum constituting the Bench and shall be communicated to the parties free of charge.इस धारा पर आपका निजी नोट
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