(1) No suit or proceeding other than an application of the kind specified in sub-section (1) of Section 11 shall be instituted in the Court of any Honorary Munsif or Bench, but an Honorary Munsif or Bench shall try the suits transferred to the Court of such Honorary Munsif or Bench as provided in subsection(2).
[(2) The District Judge shall from time to time, having regard to the number of cases pending in the respective courts, transfer for trial from the court of the Subordinate Judge or of the Munsif or of the Small Cause Court Judge to an Honorary Munsif or Bench such number of cases cognizable by such Honorary Munsif or Bench as he deems advisable:
Provided that the last paragraph of Section 25 of the Code of Civil Procedure shall not be deemed applicable to cases so transferred from Courts of Small Causes, and that, except with the written consent of all the parties, no case in which the issues have already been framed shall be so transferred.]
(3) The [State Government] may, by notification in the [Official Gazette] direct that the provisions of sub-sections (1) and (2) shall not apply to any specified Honorary Munsif or Bench.
(4) When a notification has been issued under sub-section (3), the District Judge shall assign to the Honorary Munsif or Bench specified therein such civil business cognizable by such Honorary Munsif or Bench, as, subject to any general or special orders of the High Court, he thinks fit