BOMBAY CIVIL COURTS (GUJARAT AMENDMENT) ACT, 2002
GUJARAT ACT NO. 16 OF 2002.
(First published, after having received the assent of the President in the “Gujarat Government Gazette”, on the 5th June, 2002).
An Act further to amend the Bombay Civil Courts Act, 1869.
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 Bombay Civil 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.
Amendment of section 16 of XIV of 1869.
XIV of 1869.
2. In the Bombay Civil Courts Act, 1869 (hereinafter referred to as “the principal Act”), in section 16, for the words “fifty thousand rupees”, the words “one lac rupees” shall be substituted.
Amendment of section 24 of XIV of 1869.
3. In the principal Act, in section 24, for the words “fifty thousand rupees”, the words “one lac rupees” shall be substituted.
Amendment of section 26 of XIV of 1869.
4. In the principal Act, in section 26, for the words “fifty thousand rupees”, the words “one lac rupees” shall be substituted.
Amendment of section 28A of XIV of 1869.
5. In the principal Act, in section 28A, in sub-section (2), for the words “fifty thousand rupees”, the words “one lac rupees” shall be substituted.
Transfer of pending cases.
Guj. 16 of 2002.
6. All suits and proceedings of a civil nature wherein the subject matter exceeds in amount or value fifty thousand rupees but does not exceed one lac rupees pending in a Court of Civil Judge (Senior Division) immediately before the commencement of the Bombay Civil Courts (Gujarat Amendment) Act, 2002, shall after such commencement, stand transferred to, and be disposed of by a Civil Judge (Junior Division) within the local limits of his ordinary jurisdiction. |
