(1) Nothing in this Act shall prevent the assigning of the work of a Civil Court to a Judge or *[Senior Civil Judge] of a Court of Small Causes or the conferring upon him the powers of a Magistrate of any Class or his appointment to any other public office.
(2) When a Judge or *[Senior Civil Judge] is invested with powers under sub-section (1), the ministerial staff of the Court shall be deemed to have been appointed to aid him in the work.
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7. Repealed (section 17) by Act No.19 of 1972 (vide. section 34 (1)).
Court of Small causes to be subordinate to District Court and High Court.
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Other work also may be assigned to Judge of Court of Small Causes.
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18. Where a Court is invested with the jurisdiction of a Court of Small Causes, such Court shall, for the purposes of this Act and the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908, be deemed to be a Court of Small Causes with respect to the exercise of that jurisdiction and with respect to the suits which are not cognizable by a Court of Small Causes, a different Court.
19. Notwithstanding anything contained in sections 17 and 18,-
(a) when in any Court invested with the jurisdiction of a Court of Small Causes in exercise of that jurisdiction sends a decree for execution to itself as a Court which does not exercise the jurisdiction of a Court of Small Causes, or
(b) when a Court in suits which are not cognizable by a Court of Small Causes sends a decree for execution to itself as a Court exercising the jurisdiction of a Court of Small Causes, the documents, specified in rule 6 of Order 21 of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 shall not be required to be sent with the decree unless the Court, by order in writing, requires them to be sent.
20. Where a Court of Small Causes or a Court invested with the jurisdiction of a Court of Small Causes, has for any cause, ceased to have that jurisdiction, any proceeding in relation to the case instituted whether before or after decree, in the Court which would have jurisdiction in respect of that case, if that case had been instituted on the date of institution of the proceedings:
Provided that such Court shall try the case in the same manner as the case instituted in that Court.
Court invested with jurisdiction of Court of Small Causes to have status of two Courts.
Central Act 5 of 1908.
Modification of provisions of Code of Civil Procedure so applied.
Proceedings in cases where Court has ceased to have jurisdiction of Court of Small Causes.
Central Act 5 of 1908.
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8[21. The High Court may by notification permit a Court of Small Causes to adjourn from time to time for such period not exceeding in aggregate two months in each year.