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State of Uttar Pradesh - Section

Section 197 in The General Rules (Civil), 1957

197. Period of retention of papers.

- The following papers shall be destroyed on the expiration of the periods specified against them computed from 1st January of the year succeeding that to which they relate :
Number Description of Paper Period of retention
1. Counterfoils of Amin's payment orders Three months
2. File-books of general number "slips" Six months
3. File-books of weekly extracts from Amin's diary Three months
4. File-books of Amin's weekly cash returns Six months
5. Counterfoils of property and cash receipt book of Amin One year
6. Invoice counterfoils Ditto
7. Counterfoils of receipts granted for payments into court Ditto
8. File-books of advice lists Ditto
9. File-books of memoranda of monthly grand totals of amountsreceived and repaid at the Treasury Ditto
10. File-books of daily and monthly extracts from registers Dittoof receipts and repayments of deposits Ditto
11. Periodical statements, returns, and office copies of the same Ditto
12. Proceedings of other courts and offices forwarding summonses,notices, proclamations and the like Ditto
13. Proceedings of lower courts calling for records, asking forinformation and the like Ditto
14. Reports from ministerial officers not relating to particularsuits or cases Ditto
15. Applications for leave, or from candidates for employment, orany other proceedings, reports and applications not relating toparticulars suits or cases Ditto
16. File-books of Amin's weekly property statement Ditto
17. Sahna certificate counterfoils Ditto
18. File-books of applications for search (Chapter IX, Rule 224) Ditto
19. Application for renewal of certificates of pleaders andmukhtars and cancelled certificates Two years
20. Plusandminusmemoranda and file books of thesame Three year
21. Counterfoils of certificates for refunds or payments ofCourt-fees Ditto
22. Treasury chalans (videparagraph 3 of Rule 514,Chapter XX) Six account years
23. Counterfoils of repayments order books Twelve years:
Provided that the District Judge may in his discretion direct the retention, for a longer period or permanently, of papers which he may consider likely to be useful in future, as containing the results of inquiries or other information, or the opinions of experienced officers, on matters connected with the general administration of justice; and provided also that no court subordinate to the District Judge shall cause any papers to be destroyed under this rule without having first obtained his permission in writing to do so.