THE HIGH COURT OF ORISSA: CUTTACK

NOTIFICATION

The 1st May 2023

No. 336-RȸIn exercise of the powers conferred under Article-225

of the Constitution of India, the High Court of Orissa hereby makes the

following rules further to amend the Rules of the High Court of Orissa,

1948, Volume-I (4^th Edition, 1983) namely:-

1. (i)

These Rules shall be called “The Rules of the High Court of

Orissa (Amendment) Rules, 2023.”

(ii)

They shall come into force on the date of their notification.

2. In the Rules of the High Court of Orissa, 1948, in Part-II, Chapter-

VI, after the Rule-6-A, the following Rule 6-B shall be inserted;

“6-B. Every Vakalatnama/ Appearance Memo filed by the

Advocate/ Panel Lawyers of both State & Central Government/

Designated Senior Advocates/ Advocate General, Odisha/

Deputy Solicitor General of India for State of Odisha shall bear

stamp of value Rs.10/- (Rupees Ten only), to be supplied by

the Legal Assistants’ Association (LAA), Orissa High Court,

Cuttack towards welfare of the Members of LAA. Failure to

comply the above requirement shall constitute a defect for the

purposes of stamp reporting.

Provided that the affixture of such welfare stamp is not

mandatory in the Vakaltnama/ Appearance Memo filed in the

The Odisha

G a z e t t e

EXTRAORDINARY

PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY

No. 1004 CUTTACK, THURSDAY, MAY 4, 2023/BAISAKHA 14, 1945

Virtual Courts of the High Court of Orissa set up in the districts

of the State of Odisha.”

3. Rule-5 occurring in Part-V, Chapter XXI shall be substituted as

follows;

“5. For obtaining the General Certified Copies/ Urgent Certified

Copies, the applicant shall have to impress Court Fee Stamps/

adhesive stamp as per following rates:

(a) for General certified Copy

Application Fee

Rs.7.00

Searching Fee

Rs.5.00

(in case the copies of paper

have been deposited in the

Record Room)

Folios

No of pages x Rs.2.00

Hologram Fee

No of pages x Rs.1.00

Photo Copier Fee

No of pages x Rs.1.00

For typed copies

No of pages x Rs.5.00

(b) for Urgent Certified Copy

Application Fee

Rs.10.00

Searching Fee

Rs.5.00

(in case the copies of paper

have been deposited in the

Record Room)

Folios

No of pages x Rs.2.00

Hologram Fee

No of pages x Rs.1.00

Photo Copier Fee

No of pages x Rs.1.00

For typed copies

No of pages x Rs.5.00

Provided that where the facility of taking out copy by

means of a Photo-copier machine is available, the applicant

intending to avail the benefit may, in lieu of supplying the

required impressed stamp papers, supply, for being affixed to

the copy, adhesive stamps of the value there of in addition to

affixing the value of the photo copy papers required to be used

for preparing copies at the rate of Rs.1.00 per sheet by way of

adhesive stamp.

Provided that where an application for a digitally signed

copy of order/judgment/pleading/document is filed online and

the copy is delivered online, no fee shall be payable.

Provided further that applications for copies from the

central

government,

state

government,

public

sector

undertakings, urban and rural local bodies shall be received

and copies shall be delivered only online.”

4. In the said rules, the Rule-6, Part-V, Chapter XXI, of the Rules of the

High Court of Orissa, 1948 (4^th Edition, 1983) be omitted.

5. In the said rules, the Rule-6-C, occurring in Part-V, Chapter-XXI be

substituted as follows;

“6-C. The Assistant concerned on receiving application for

supply of photocopy shall, after evaluation, collect from the

applicant photocopy paper charges at the rate of Rs.2.00 per

sheet of paper by way of adhesive stamp in the manner

indicated in Sub-rules (a) and (b) of Rule 5 and indicate the

adhesive stamp collected by him for the purpose, separately,

on the cost of the application.”

6. After Chapter-XXI of Part-V of the Rules of the High Court of Orissa,

1948, Volume-I (4^th Edition, 1983), insert the following as Chapter-

XXI-A:

“Part-V

Chapter-XXI-A

DIGITALLY SIGNED COPIES

1. The secretarial staff preparing the order or judgment shall

append his or her digital signature on the softcopy of the order

or judgment.

2. The concerned Secretarial Staff shall upload the digitally

signed copy of the orders and judgments on the website of the

High Court of Orissa on the same or the immediate next day

as the order or the judgment is signed by the Judge.

On receipt of the online application for copy of pleading or

other document of a case filed in the High Court of Orissa, the

Superintendent of the Copying Section or any other staff

authorized in this behalf shall append his or her digital

signature on the scanned copy of the required document

and the copy shall be sent to the applicant online.

A digitally signed copy of an order or a judgment or pleading

or other document delivered online shall be treated as a

certified copy of the said order or judgment or pleading or

document and be acted upon as such subject to verification on

the High Court’s website.

Procedure of appending the digital signature and uploading the

orders, judgments and other documents shall be as per the

Standard Operating Procedure issued under this Rule from

time to time.”

By Order of the Court

SUMAN KUMAR MISHRA

Registrar (Judicial)

Printed and Published by the Director, Directorate of Printing, Stationery and Publication, Odisha, Cuttack-10

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