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Compendium on Acts and Rules

Copies of 335. Subject to the last preceding rule when clerical officers are department-ally
orders of punished or ordered to retire, copies of such, orders, if applied for by them, are to be
punishment,
etc., to be given given free of "cost. Such copies are to be made on plain paper by the salaried
free of cost.
establishment.

Copies 336. No fees are to be demanded or paid for searching for or copying or typing papers
required by
public officer. required by public officers for public purposes. In such cases the copies are to be made
on plain paper by the salaried establishment.

NOTE.—Local bodies and Managers under the Court of Wards are not to be treated as
public officers for the purposes of this rule.

Inspection of 337. Nothing in these rules is to be held as interfering with the inspection by parties or
records. their authorized agents of the records of pending cases which they may have a right to

inspect; but this must be done under such safeguards as the gazetted officer on whose

file they are, or the Collector may think necessary against the removal or alteration of
documents and the publication of privileged communications. All current registers should

be accessible, under proper precautions and on payment of the searching fee prescribed

by rule 279, to parties desirous of consulting them.

Admittance to 338. Admittance to the record-room should be absolutely "prohibited to all persons other
record-room
prohibited. than gazetted officers serving in the district and the officers of the Collector's Court
except on production of a written order for admittance signed by the Collector.

Vernacular 339. A printed Bengali copy of an abstract of the portions of this Chapter which concern
rules. the public shall be conspicuously exhibited on the notice board of the record-room.

340. The rules in this section apply also to all offices subordinate to the Board mutatis
mutandis.

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