The Commercial Courts Act, 2015
[Act No. 4 of 2016]
[31st December, 2015.]
| Contents | |
| Sections | Particulars |
| Title | The Commercial Courts Act, 2015 |
| Chapter I | Preliminary |
| 1. | Short Title, Extent and Commencement |
| 2. | Definitions |
| Chapter II | Commercial Courts, Commercial appellate Courts, Commercial Divisions and Commercial appellate Divisions |
| 3. | Constitution of Commercial Courts |
| 4. | Constitution Of Commercial Division Of High Court |
| 5. | Constitution Of Commercial Appellate Division |
| 6. | Jurisdiction Of Commercial Court |
| 7. | Jurisdiction Of Commercial Divisions Of High Courts |
| 8. | Bar Against Revision Application Or Petition Against An Interlocutory Order |
| 9. | [Omitted] |
| 10. | Jurisdiction In Respect Of Arbitration Matters |
| 11. | Bar Of Jurisdiction Of Commercial Courts And Commercial Divisions |
| Chapter III | Specified Value |
| 12. | Determination Of Specified Value |
| Chapter IIIA | Pre-Institution Mediation And Settlement |
| 12A. | Pre-Institution Mediation And Settlement |
| Chapter IV | Appeals |
| 13. | Appeals From Decrees Of Commercial Courts And Commercial Divisions |
| 14. | Expeditious Disposal Of Appeals |
| Chapter V | Transfer Of Pending Suits |
| 15. | Transfer Of Pending Cases |
| Chapter VI | Amendments To The Provisions Of The Code Of Civil Procedure |
| 16. | Amendments To The Code Of Civil Procedure, 1908 In Its Application To Commercial Disputes |
| Chapter VII | Miscellaneous |
| 17. | Collection And Disclosure Of Data By Commercial Courts |
| 18. | Power Of High Court To Issue Directions |
| 19. | Infrastructure Facilities |
| 20. | Training And Continuous Education |
| 21. | Act To Have Overriding Effect |
| 22. | Power To Remove Difficulties |
| 23. | Repeal And Savings |
| The Schedules | |
| 1. | Amendment of section |
| 2. | Substitution of new section for section |
| 3. | Amendment of section |
| 4. | Amendment of First Schedule |
| Order XI | Disclosure, Discovery and Inspection of Documents in Suits Before The Commercial Division of a High Court or a Commercial Court |
| 5. | Disclosure and discovery of documents |
| 6. | Discovery by interrogatories |
| 7. | Inspection |
| 8. | Admission and denial of documents |
| 9. | Production of documents |
| 10. | Electronic records |
| 11. | Certain provisions of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 not to apply |
| 12. | Insertion of new Order XIII-A |
| Order XIII-A | Summary Judgment |
| 13. | Scope of and classes of suits to which this Order applies |
| 14. | Stage for application for summary judgment |
| 15. | Grounds for summary judgment |
| 16. | Procedure |
| 17. | Evidence for hearing of summary judgment |
| 18. | Orders that may be made by Court |
| 19. | Conditional order |
| 20. | Power to impose costs |
| Order XVA | Case Management Hearing |
| 21. | First Case Management Hearing |
| 22. | Orders to be passed in a Case Management Hearing |
| 23. | Time limit for the completion of a trial |
| 24. | Recording of oral evidence on a day-to-day basis |
| 25. | Case Management Hearings during a trial |
| 26. | Powers of the Court in a Case Management Hearing |
| 27. | Adjournment of Case Management Hearing |
| 28. | Consequences of non-compliance with orders |
| 29. | Amendment of Order XVIII |
| 30. | Amendment to Order XIX |
| 31. | Amendment of Order XX |