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Section 9: Power to fix local limits of jurisdiction of Courts

The Odisha Civil Courts Act, 1984State Act of Odisha · Act 18 of 1984

(1) The State Government, may in consultation with the High Court and by notification, fix and alter the local limits of the jurisdiction of any Civil Court established under this Act.

(2) If the same local jurisdiction is assigned to two or more 1[Civil Judge, (Senior Division)] or two or more 1[Civil Judge, (Junior Division)] the District Judge may, subject to any general or special orders of the High Court, assign to each at them such civil business cognizable by the 1[Civil Judge, (Senior Divi-

1. Substituted vide O.G.E. No 1647, dt. 21.12.1993 sion)] or 1[Civil Judge, (Junior Division)], as the case may be, as he thinks fit

Provided that a decree or order passed by the 1[Civil Judge, (Senior Division))] or 1[Civil Judge, (Junior Division)] shall not be invalid by reason only of the case in which it was made having arisen wholly or in part in a place beyond the local area of which the civil business is assigned by the District Judge, if the place is within the local limits fixed by the State Government under Sub-section (1).

(3) A Judge of a Court of Small Causes appointed to be also a 1[Civil Judge, (Senior Division)] or [Civil Judge, (Junior Division)] shall be deemed to be a 1[Civil Judge, (Senior Division)] or [Civil Judge, (Junior Division)] as the case may be, for the purposes of this section.

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ActThe Odisha Civil Courts Act, 1984
Section9
Marginal notePower to fix local limits of jurisdiction of Courts
JurisdictionState of Odisha
StatusIn force as published by the source

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