ORDER I

1THE SUPREME COURT RULES, 1978 1THE SUPREME COURT RULES, 1978. The Supreme Court of Azad Jammu and Kashmir, in exercise of its rule making powers, and in consultation with the Azad Jammu and Kashmir Council, hereby makes the following Rules: PART‑I GENERAL ORDER‑I INTERPRETATION, ETC, 1. (1) These Rules may be cited as the Supreme Court Rules 1978, and shall come into force at once. (2) The Judicial Board Rules, 1975, are hereby revoked: Provided that this revocation shall not affect any action taken, any order made or anything done under the said Rules prior to this revocation. 2 (1) In these Rules, unless the context otherwise requires‑‑‑ "Advocate" means a person entitled to appear and plead before the Supreme Court; "Advocate‑General" means the Advocate General for Azad Jammu and Kashmir; "Advocate on record" means an Advocate, who is under these Rules to act as well as to plead for a party in the Supreme Court; "Chief Justice" means the Chief Justice of Azad Jammu and Kashmir; "Code" means the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (Act V of 1908); "Constitution" means the Azad Jammu and Kashmir Interim Constitution Act, 1974; "Council" means the Azad Jammu and Kashmir Council; "Court" and "this Court" means the Supreme Court of Azad Jammu and Kashmir; "Court appealed from" includes a tribunal and any other judicial body from which an appeal is preferred to the Court; 2["Gazette" means Gazette of Azad Jammu and Kashmir and Gazette of Azad Jammu and Kashmir Council;] "Judge" means a Judge of the Court; "Judgment" includes the decision or the statement given by a Court or a judge of the grounds of a decree or order; "High Court" means the High Court of Azad Jammu and Kashmir; "Party" and all words descriptive of parties to proceedings before the Court (as "appellant", "Respondent", "plaintiff", "defendant" and the like) include in respect of all acts proper to be done by an advocate on record, the advocate on record of the party in question, when he is represented by an Advocate on record; "Prescribed" means prescribed by or under these Rules; "record" in Part 11 of these Rules means the aggregate of papers relating to an appeal (including the pleadings, proceeding, evidence, and judgments) proper to be laid before the Court at the hearing of the appeal; "Registrar" and Registry" means respectively the Registrar and Registry of the Court; "Branch Registry" means Branch Registry of the Court set up by the Chief Justice at any place within the Azad Jammu and Kashmir and notified in the official Gazette; "Respondent" includes an intervener; 2["Senior Advocate" means an Advocate enrolled as such by the Court;] "signed" save in the case of a judgement and decree, includes stamped. (2) All words and expressions used, but not defined in these rules, shall have the same meaning as in the Constitution. (3) The General Clauses Act, 1897 (X of 1879) applies for the interpretation of these Rules as it applies for the interpretation of an Act of the Legislature. 3. Where by these Rules or by any order of the Court any step is required to be taken in connection with any cause, matter or appeal before the Court, that step shall, unless the context otherwise requires, be taken in the Registry or in the appropriate Branch Registry. 4. Where any particular number of days is prescribed by these Rules, the same shall be computed in accordance with the provisions of the Limitation Act, 1908 (1X of 1908). 5 None of the provisions of the Code shall apply to any proceedings in the Court unless expressly made applicable by these Rules.