Act Number: 12

Act Name: The City of Bombay Municipal (Supplementary) Act, 1888

Year: 1888

Enactment Date: 1888-10-12

Long Title: An Act to supplement certain provisions of the City of Bombay Municipal Act, 1888, and of the Calcutta Municipal Consolidation Act, 1889.

Ministry: Ministry of Home Affairs

Department: Department of States

Section 4: Appeal to the Bombay High Court from orders of Presidency Magistrates in Bombay.
    (1) An appeal shall lie to the High Court of Judicature at Bombay from an order passed by a Presidency Magistrate under section 515 of the City of Bombay Municipal Act, 1888.
    (2) The High Court may from time to time make rules for regulating the admission of appeals under sub-section (1) and the procedure to be followed in the adjudication thereof.
    (3) When an appeal has been preferred to the High Court under this section, the Municipal Commissioner for the City of Bombay shall defer action upon the order of the Presidency Magistrate until the appeal has been disposed of.
    (4) But, when the appeal has been disposed of, he shall forthwith give effect to the order passed therein by the High Court, or, if the order of the Presidency Magistrate has not been disturbed by the High Court, then to his order.
    (5) When disposing of an appeal under this section the High Court may direct by whom the costs of the appeal are to be paid, and whether in the whole or in what part or proportion.
    (6) Costs so directed to be paid may, on application to a Presidency Magistrate, be recovered by him, in accordance with the direction of the High Court, as if they were a fine imposed by himself.
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