Section 3: Insolvency jurisdiction

The Provincial Insolvency Act, 1920Central Act · Act 5 of 1920

(1) The District Courts shall be the Courts having jurisdiction under this Act:

Provided that the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, invest any Court subordinate to a District Court with jurisdiction in any class of cases, and any Court so invested shall within the local limits of its jurisdiction have concurrent jurisdiction with the District Court under this Act.

1. The words “in the Provinces of India” rep. by the A.O. 1950.

2. The words “and the town of Karachi” rep. by the A.O.1948. In the long title the word “Karachi” had been subs. by the A.O.

1937 for “Rangoon”. In the preamble the words “town of Karachi” had been subs. by the A.O.1937 for “towns of Rangoon and Karachi” which had been substituted by Act 9 of 1926, s.11, for “town of Rangoon”.

3. Subs. by A.O. 1950 for “all the Provinces of India expect”

4. Subs. by the Adaptation of Laws (No. 3) Order , 1956, for “Part B States”.

Where this provision sits

Act	The Provincial Insolvency Act, 1920
Section	3
Marginal note	Insolvency jurisdiction
Jurisdiction	Central
Status	In force as published by the source

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