(1) The Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, invest within such local limits as it shall, from time to time, appoint – * Substituted vide Act No.9 of 1986 w.e.f 26.06.1986 ** Deleted vide Act No.5 of 2005 w.e.f 01.11.2005.
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(a) any *[Subordinate Judge] with the jurisdiction of a Judge of a Court of small Causes for the trail of suits cognizable by such Courts up to the amount of +[five thousand rupees]; and
(b) any Munsif with the same jurisdiction upto the amount of +[two thousand rupees].
(2) The Government may, by like notification, withdraw such jurisdiction from the *[Subordinate Judge] or Munsif as invested under sub- section (1).
**[Transitory provisions. (1) All small cause suits pending on the file of the District Court, Karaikal, where the amount or the subject value of such small cause suits does not exceeds rupees two thousand but, does not exceed rupees five thousand shall stand transferred to the Subordinate Court at Karaikal].
**[(2) All small cause suits pending on the file of the District Court, Karaikal, where the amount or the subject value of such small cause suits exceeds rupees two thousand but, does not exceed rupees five thousand shall stand transferred to the Subordinate Court at Karaikal].
(3) All the part-heard and judgment reserved suits shall be heard and disposed of by the respective courts as if this Act has not been passed.]