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PART II · CHAPTER I THE SUBORDINATE CIVIL COURTS

Section 13: Power to invest 1[Civil Judge] with Small Cause Court jurisdiction

The Himachal Pradesh Courts Act, 1976

How current this text is

Text as published by the Law Department, Government of Himachal Pradesh, with amendments up to H.P. Act No. 19 of 2022.

The High Court may, by notification in the Official Gazette, confer, within such local limits as it thinks fit, upon any 2[Civil Judge], the jurisdiction of a Judge of a Court of Small Causes under the Provincial Small Cause Courts Act, 1887 (9 of 1887), for the trial of suits, cognizable by such Court, upto such value not exceeding two thousand rupees as it thinks fit, and may withdraw any jurisdiction so conferred.

Footnotes in the official text

  1. 1.Substituted for the words "Subordinate Judge" vide H.P.Act No. 14 of 2003.
  2. 2.Substituted for the words "Subordinate Judge" vide H.P.Act No. 14 of 2003.

Questions on this section

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