PROVINCIAL SMALL CAUSE COURTS (GUJARAT AMENDMENT) ACT, 2002
GUJARAT ACT NO. 18 OF 2002.
(First published, after having received the assent of the President in “Gujarat Government Gazette”, on the 5th June, 2002).
An Act further to amend the Provincial Small Cause Courts Act, 1887 in its application to the State of Gujarat.
It is hereby enacted in the Fifty-third Year of the Republic of India as follows:-
Short title and commencement.
1. (1) This Act may be called the Provincial Small Cause Courts (Gujarat Amendment) Act, 2002.
(2) It shall come into force on such date as the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.
AmendÂment of section 15 of IX of 1887.
2. In the Provincial Small Cause Courts Act, 1887 (hereinafter referred to as “the principal Act”), in its application to the State of Gujarat, in section 15, in sub-section (3), for the words “two thousand rupees”, the words “two lacs rupees” shall be substituted.
Transfer of pending cases.
3. All suits and applications of a civil nature wherein the subject matter exceeds in amount or value two thousand rupees but does not exceed two lacs rupees pending in the District Court immediately before the commencement of the Provincial Small Cause Courts (Gujarat Amendment) Act, 2002, shall after such commencement stand transferred to, and be disposed of by the Judge, Small Cause Court within the local limit of his ordinary jurisdiction. |
