(1) The Courts of Small Causes in the State or in any area of the State, shall be closed on such days as may be notified by the State Government as public holidays, for the whole State or for any area in the State.
1. Subsection 1 to 6 substituted by Act 26 of 1985 w.e.f. 29.4.1985.
(2) The Courts of Small Causes shall have three vacations in each year, summer, dasara and winter and the total number of days of the said three vacations together shall not exceed 1[sixty days]1 and the High Court shall fix the period of each vacation.
1. Substituted by Act 11 of 1981 w.e.f. 4.4.1981
(3) Notwithstanding anything contained in this Act,—
(a) the High Court may, where there are more than one Judge in any Court of Small Causes, designate by notification, any one or more of those Judges as Vacation Judge or Judges for the duration of the adjournment of such Court of Small Causes during any vacation, or part thereof;
(b) Where there is only one Judge in any Court of Small Causes, the High Court may, designate by notification such Judge or appoint any Civil Judge in the district as the Vacation Judge for the duration of the adjournment of such Court of Small Causes during any vacation or part thereof. The High Court may regulate by special or general order work to be discharged by the Vacation Judge, or Judges, Court of Small Causes.
(4) (a) The local limits of the jurisdiction of the Vacation Judge, Court of Small Causes shall be the same as those of the Court of Small Causes concerned.
(b) The jurisdiction of the Vacation Judge, Court of Small Causes shall extend to all suits or proceedings cognizable by the Court of Small Causes concerned.
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(5) The place at which the Court of the Vacation Judge, Court of Small Causes, shall be held, shall be the same at which the Court of Small Causes concerned may be held. The Senior Vacation Judge or the Vacation Judge as the case may be, shall have such administrative control over the staff of the Court of the Small Causes concerned, as the High Court may, by general or special order, determine.
(6) Notwithstanding the designation of the Vacation Judge or Judges, the Courts of Small Causes concerned shall during the period it is adjourned for any vacation, be deemed to be closed for the purposes of section 4 of the Limitation Act, 1963 (Central Act 36 of 1963).]1