{
    "id": 15064,
    "slug": "assam-family-courts-rules-1990-1990",
    "title": "Assam Family Courts Rules, 1990",
    "short_title": "Assam Family Courts Rules, 1990",
    "act_number": "Published in the Assam Gazette, Extraordinary No. ",
    "act_year": 1990,
    "act_type": "STATE",
    "location": "Assam",
    "law_status": "unknown",
    "enactment_date": null,
    "description": "Assam Family Courts Rules, 1990",
    "preamble": "",
    "section_label": "Section",
    "sections": [
        {
            "number": "1",
            "title": "1. Short title, extent and commencement.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 0
        },
        {
            "number": "2",
            "title": "2. Definitions.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) \"Act\" means the Family Courts Act, 1984 (No. 66 of 1984).\n(b) \"Family Courts\" means the Courts constituted under the Family Courts Act, 1984.\n(c) \"Principal judge\" means the Presiding Judge of a Family Court which consists of more than one Judge and include also the sole Judge where the Family Court consists of only one Judge.\n(d) \"Additional judge\" means the Judge or Judges of the Family Court other than the Principal Judge.\n(e) \"Institution\" and \"Organisation\" means any institution or organisation engaged in social welfare and registered under the Societies Registration Act, 1860.\n(f) \"Counsellor\" means a person having suitable legal knowledge and working experience of social and family welfare appointed so as to assist the Family Court in the matters of law and in making conciliation etc. and to tender legal advice to the parties of litigations before the Family Court.\n(g) All other words and expressions used but not defined in these Rules and defined in the Act or the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 shall have the meanings respectively assigned to them in that Code or the Act.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": true,
            "sort_order": 1
        },
        {
            "number": "3",
            "title": "3. Application.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 2
        },
        {
            "number": "4",
            "title": "4. Salary or honorarium and other allowances of Judges.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Note. - The pay scale admissible to a Family Court Judge at the commencement of these rules is Rs. 3950-Rs. 6100 p.m.\nNote.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 3
        },
        {
            "number": "5",
            "title": "5. Terms and conditions of service.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 4
        },
        {
            "number": "6",
            "title": "6. Institutions or organisation of persons rendering service to Family Court.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 5
        },
        {
            "number": "7",
            "title": "7. Counsellor.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 6
        },
        {
            "number": "8",
            "title": "8. Salary, allowances, terms and conditions.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Note. - The pay scale admissible to a Counsellor of the Family Court, (other than the members of the Judicial Service), at the commencement of these rules is Rs. 3375-100-3575-125-4325 EB-125-4450-150-5200.\nNote.\n9.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 7
        },
        {
            "number": "10",
            "title": "10. Staff of Family Court.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "1.\nSuperintendent\n1\n2.\nU.D. Assistant\n1\n3.\nL.D. Assistant\n3\n4.\nTypist\n1 (English)\n5.\nStenographer-Gr. I\n1\n6.\nPeon\n4\n7.\nCounsellor\n1\n8.\nStenographer Gr. II\n1\n9.\nPeon\n2\nTotal\n15",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 8
        },
        {
            "number": "11",
            "title": "11. Terms and conditions of services.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "12.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 9
        }
    ],
    "metadata": {
        "Act ID": "Last Updated 12th February, 2020 [ass238]",
        "Act Number": "Published in the Assam Gazette, Extraordinary No. 234, dated 20-12-1990",
        "Enactment Date": "",
        "Act Year": "1990",
        "Short Title": "Assam Family Courts Rules, 1990",
        "Type": "STATE",
        "Location": "Assam"
    },
    "updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:55:19"
}