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GOVERNMENT OF PUDUCHERRY

LAW DEPARTMENT

(G.O. Ms. No. 09/2022-LD., Puducherry, dated 24th May 2022)

NOTIFICATION

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 35 of the Advocates’

Welfare Fund Act, 2001 (Central Act 45 of 2001), read with the

Notification in S.O.E., dated 25th October, 2001 of the Ministry of Home

Affairs, Government of India, New Delhi, the Lieutenant-Governor,

Puducherry, hereby makes the following rules further to amend the

Puducherry Advocates’ Welfare Fund Rules, 2008 notified by the Law

Department, Government of Puducherry vide G.O. Ms. No. 15/2008-LD.,

dated 2nd July 2008 and published in the Extraordinary Gazette No. 25,

Part-II, dated 14th July 2008, namely:-

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1. Short title and commencement.— (1) These rules may be called

the Puducherry Advocates’ Welfare Fund (Amendment) Rules, 2021.

(2) They shall come into force from the date of their publication

in the Official Gazette.

2. Amendment of rule 21.— (i) In rule 21 of the Puducherry

Advocates’ Welfare Fund Rules, 2008 (hereinafter referred as the said

rules), in the sub-rule (1) for the existing words “five rupees and ten

rupees” the words “twenty rupees and twenty-five rupees” shall be

substituted.

(ii) for the existing sub-rule (2), the following shall be

substituted, namely:-

“(2) Every stamp shall have the emblem of the Bar Council

of Tamil Nadu and Puducherry with the inscription of the words “Bar

Council of Tamil Nadu and Puducherry” along with the symbol of Aayi

Mandabam with the inscription of the words Puducherry Advocates’

Welfare Fund Stamp in Block Letters as well as it value in terms of

rupees”.

3. Insertion of new rule 21A.— After the existing rule 21 of the

said rules, the following new rule shall be inserted, namely:-

“21A. Vakalatnama to bear stamps.— Every Advocate shall affix

a stamp of a value of-

(a) twenty rupees on every Vakalatnama filed in a District

Court or a Court subordinate to the District Court or

a Tribunal or other authority in the Union territory of

Puducherry;

(b) twenty-five rupees on every Vakalatnama filed in the

Supreme Court or the High Court or a Tribunal or other

authority in the cases arising from the Union territory of

Puducherry beyond the Union Territory limits”.

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4. Insertion of new rule 24.— After the existing rule 23 of the said

rules, the following new rule shall be inserted, namely:-

“24. Saving.— The provision of these rules shall not apply to

the Vakalatnama/Memo of Appearance filed on behalf of the Government

of Puducherry”.

(By order of the Lieutenant-Governor)

N. MURUGAVEL,

Under Secretary to Government (Law).

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