(2) Save as otherwise provided by any enactment for the time being in force, an appeal from a decree or order of a subordinate judge shall he—
(a) to the district judge where the value of the original suit in which or in any proceeding arising out of which, a decree or order was made did not exceed five thousand rupees, and
(b) to the High Court in any other case.
(2) Save as aforesaid, an appeal from a decree or order of a munsiff shall lie to the court of the subordinate judge.
15, The Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, confer, within such local limits as it thinks fit, upon any subordinate judge or munsiff the jurisdiction of a judge of a court of small causes under the Provincial Small Cause Courts Act, 1887 for the trial of suits, cognizable by such courts, up to such value not exceeding five hundred rupees as it thinks fit and may withdraw any jurisdiction so conferred:
Provided that the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, delegate to the High Court its powers under this section.
It. Where in any suit or other proceeding it is necessary for a civil court to decide any question regarding succession, inheritance, marriage, caste or any religious usage or institution, any custom having the force of law, or any personal law, governing the parties to, or applicable in relation to the properties in issue in, such suit or proceeding shall form the rule of decision except in so far as such custom or personal law has, by legislative enactment, beeh altered or abolished.