(1) In ·the Land 'Acquisition Act, (XI of 1089)-
(a) for the words ''District Court'' wherever they occur, the word ''court" .shall be substituted ;
(b) 10 Section 3, after clause (c-1), the following clause shall be inserted, namely:- '(c-2) The expressiOn "court'' means the DI:;tnct Court unless the Government have appointed (as they are hereby empowered to do) a special judiCial officer within any specified local hm1ts to perform the func tions of the court under thi3 Act;'.
(2) In the Travancore-Cochin Hmdu 'Religious Institutions Act, 1950 (XV of 1950), sub-sPction (2) of sectiOn 55 and •sub section (2) of !:>ectwn 124 shall be omitted; and ~ub-.section (1) of section 55 and sub-section (1) of section 124 shall be renumber Jed as section 55 and section 124 respectively .
• 22. Repeal and savzngs.- (1) The Madras Civil Courts Act, 1873 (Madras Act III of 1873), as in force in the Malabar district referred tom sub-section (2) of section 5.of the States Reorgani satiOn Act, 1956 (37 of 1956), and the Travancore-Cochin -Civil .Courts Act;l951 (XXII of 195]), are hereby repealed.
(2) Notwithstandmg anyihmg conta10ed 10 sub-section
(1), all courts constituted, appointments made, limits fixed and jurisdition and powers conferred under any Act hereby repeal ed shall, so far as may be consistent with th1s Act, be deemed to have been constituted, made, fixed •and conferred under this .Act.
(3) Notwith<;tandmg anything conta10ed in sub-section (1) or sub-section (2), all DistriCt JudgE's, Subordmate Judges and District Munsiffs, who immediately before the commencement .of this Act, were empowered by or under the Travancore-Cochm Civil Courts Act, 1951, to hear and determme certam classes of suits as small causes shall cont10ue to exercise such power in•re5pect of such classes of slllts m accordance with the pro· .visions·of the srud C1vil Courts Act as if such provisiOns were t:not repealed.
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