JCP Rules 7

धारा 7 · Place of sitting and other matters relating to State Commission

(1)

Office of the State Commission shall be located at Ranchi.

(2)

The working days and the office hours of the State Commission shall be as notified by the State Government from time to time.

(3)

The official seal and emblem of the State Commission shall be such as the State Government may specify.

(4)

Sitting of the State Commission as and when necessary, shall be convened by the President as provided in sub-rule (2).

(5)

No act or proceedings of the State Commission shall be invalid by reasons only of the existence of any vacancy among its members or any defect in its constitution thereof.

(6)

State Government shall appoint such staff, as may be necessary to assist the State Commission in its 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 State Commission 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, State Commission fixes a date for hearing of the parties, it shall be obligatory on the complainant and opposite party or his authorised agent to appear before the State Commission on such date of hearing or other date to which hearing is adjourned. Where the complainant or his authorised agent fails to appear before the State Commission on such day, the State Commission 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 State Commission may decide the complaint ex-parte.

(9)

While proceedings under sub-rule (8) the State Commission 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 State Commission shall be signed and dated by the members of the State Commission constituting the Bench and shall be communicated to the parties free of charge.

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