*[(1) The annual vacations for the Courts constituted under this Act shall be fixed by the High Court].
(2) Such annual vacations shall not exceed in the aggregate sixty days in the case of the Court of the District Judge and a Subordinate Judge’s Court and forty-five days in the case of a Munsif’s Court.
**[Omitted].
(3) Notwithstanding anything contained in this Act or in the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908, the Government may, for the duration of the annual vacations, appoint a Vacation Civil Judge in each of the regions of the Union territory, namely, Pondicherry, Karaikal, Mahe and Yanam;
Provided that a Vacation Civil Judge appointed for Pondicherry or Karaikal region shall be not below the rank of a Subordinate Judge.
(4) The local limits of the jurisdiction of the Vacation Civil Judge shall be the same as those of the principal Civil Court in the region concerned.
(5) The jurisdiction of the Vacation Civil Judge shall extend to all suits, appeals and other proceedings pending in, or cognizable by, any civil court in the region concerned when such court is adjourned for annual vacations.
(6) Notwithstanding the appointment of the Vacation Civil Judge, every civil court in the Union territory shall, during the period it is adjourned for annual vacations, be deemed to be closed for the purpose of section 4 of the Limitation Act, 1963.
(7) On the reopening of a Court of the District Judge, a Subordinate Judge’s Court or a Munsif’s Court after the annual vacations, all suits, appeals and other proceedings pending in the court of the Vacation Civil Judge which, but for this section, would have been instituted or pending in such Court of the District Judge, Subordinate Judge’s Court or Munsif’s Court, as the case may be, shall stand transferred to such Court of the District Judge, Subordinate Judge’s Court or Munsif’s Court and any decree, order or proceeding passed by the Vacation Civil Judge shall, after such transfer, be deemed to be a decree, order or proceeding passed by the court concerned.
(8) Notwithstanding the provisions of sub-section (7), any appeal from the decree or order of the court of the Vacation Civil Judge shall, when such appeal is allowed by law, lie to the High Court].
* Amended vide Act No.5 of 2005 w.e.f. 01-11-2005.
** Omitted vide Act No.9 of 1986 w.e.f. 26-6-1986.
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