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Section 21: Power of High Court to make rules
Power of High Court to make rules.—
- (1) The High Court may, by notification in the Official Gazette, make such rules as it may deem necessary for carrying out the purposes of this Act.
- (2) In particular, and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power, such rules may provide for all or any of the following matters, namely:—
- (a) normal working hours of Family Courts and holding of sittings of Family Courts on holidays and outside normal working hours;
- (b) holding of sittings of Family Courts at places other than their ordinary places of sitting;
- (c) efforts which may be made by, and the procedure which may be followed by, a Family Court for assisting and persuading parties to arrive at a settlement.
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