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THE AZAD JAMMU AND KASHMIR CONCILIATION COURTS ACT, 1986 THE AZAD JAMMU AND KASHMIR CONCILIATION COURTS ACT, 1986 (ACT XIV OF 1986) [Dated March 9, 1986] AN ACT to make the provisions for the establishment of conciliation courts in Azad Jammu and Kashmir. WHEREAS the Local Government Institutions have been set up and it is expedient to make provisions for the establishment of conciliation courts to enable the people .to settle certain disputes through conciliation, and for matters ancillary thereto: It is hereby enacted as follows.- 16. No appearance through Counsel.--- (1) Notwithstanding anything contained in the Legal Practitioners Act, -1879 (XVIII of 1879) no, legal practitioner shall be permitted to appear on behalf of any party to a dispute before any Conciliation Court or other authority exercising powers under this Act. (2) If a person required under this Act to appear before a Conciliation Court is a purdanashin lady, the Conciliation Court may permit her to be represented by a duly authorized agent who shall in no case be a paid agent.