#THE HIGH COURTS (SEALS) ACT, 1950
________

##ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS 
_________

SECTIONS
1. Short title. 
2. Seals of High Courts. 
3. [Repealed.] 



#THE HIGH COURTS (SEALS) ACT, 1950

##ACT NO. 7 OF 1950 

[27th February, 1950.]

An  Act  to  provide  for  the  use  of  seals  of  common  form  and  design  by  the  High  Courts  in 
  the States. 

    BE it enacted by Parliament as:—

1. **Short title.**—This Act may be called the High Courts (Seals) Act, 1950.

2. **Seals of High Courts.**—(1) Every High Court in a [^1]State shall have and use, as occasion may 
arise, a seal bearing a device and impression of the Asoka capital within an exergue or label surrounding 
the  same,  with  the  following  inscriptions  at  convenient  places,  namely,  “THE  SEAL  OF  THE  HIGH 
COURT AT (or OF) ..............”, followed by the name of the seal of the High Court or the name of the 
State, as the case may be, and “Satyameva Jayate” in Devanagari script.

(2) Every Court of the Judicial Commissioner for a [^2]Union territory shall have and use, as occasion 
may arise, a seal similar to the seal of a High Court in a [^3] State, but with the first inscription reading 
“THE  SEAL  OF  THE  JUDICIAL  COMMISSIONER'S  COURT  FOR  .......................”  followed  by  the 
[^4]{name of the Union territory}.

(3)  The  provisions  of  this  shall  supersede  any  provision  contrary  thereto  or  inconsistent  therewith 

contained in any Letters Patent, Order, direction or other law relating to the use of seals by High Courts. 

3. [**Repeal of Ordinance** 13 of 1950.]—**Rep. by the Repealing and Amending Act**, 1957 (36 of 1957)  
**s. 2 and  the First Schedule**.

------------------------------------------------
[^1]. Subs. by the Adaptation of Laws (No. 3) Order, 1956, for “Part A State or Part B State”. 
[^2]. Subs., ibid., for “Part C State”. 
[^3]. The word and letter “Part A” omitted, ibid. 
[^4]. Subs., ibid., for “name of the State”.