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▪ ➢ 2015 } | 9 { No. 45 Poudouchéry Mardi 9 Juin 2015
No. Puducherry Tuesday 9th June 2015
( 19 Jyaistha 1937 )
GOVERNMENT OF PUDUCHERRY
LAW DEPARTMENT
No. 1768/2013-LD.
Puducherry, the 9th June 2015.
The following Act of the Legislative Assembly, Puducherry received
the assent of the President on the 26th May, 2015 and is hereby published
for general information.
[ 371 ] 372 LA GAZETTE DE L'ETAT [PART–II
THE PUDUCHERRY CIVIL COURTS
(AMENDMENT) ACT, 2015
(Act No. 5 of 2015)
(26-5-2015)
AN
ACT
further to amend the Puducherry Civil Courts Act, 1966.
BE it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of Puducherry in the Sixty-sixth Year of the Republic of India as follows :—
1. (1) This Act may be called the Puducherry
Civil Courts (Amendment) Act, 2015.
S h o r t t i t l e , e x t e n t a n d commencement.
(2) It extends to the whole of the Union territory
of Puducherry.
(3) It shall come into force on such date as the Government may, by notification in the official gazette, appoint.
Am e n d m e n t of sec tion 8.
Ac t No.12 o f 1 9 6 6 .
2. In the Puducherry Civil Courts Act, 1966 (hereinafter referred to as the Principal Act), in section 8, in sub-section (2), the following proviso shall be inserted, namely:–
"Provided that the jurisdiction of the Subordinate Judge's Court at Mahe and Yanam extends, subject to the provisions of the said Code to all original suits and proceedings of civil nature.".
3. In the Principal Act, in section 9,—
"(2A) Appeals from the decrees and orders of the Subordinate Judges at Mahe and Yanam shall, when such appeals are allowed by law, lie to the High Court of Judicature at Madras:
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Provided that in so far as appeals from the decrees and orders of the Subordinate Judges at Mahe and Yanam in any civil suit where the suit value does not exceed rupees five lakhs, shall, when such appeals are allowed by law, lie to the Court of District Judge at Puducherry.
(2B) Appeals from the decrees and orders of the Subordinate Judges at Mahe and Yanam where such decrees and orders were passed by the said Judge concerned as if he is a District Munsif in relation to their respective jurisdictional areas shall, when such appeals are allowed by law, lie to the Court of District Judge at Puducherry.".
4. In the Principal Act, after section 9, the
following section shall be inserted, namely:–
Insertion of new section 9A.
T r a n s i t o r y P rovi s i on s .
"9A. Appeals from the decrees and orders of the Subordinate Judges at Mahe and Yanam pending disposal before the Court of District Judge at Pondicherry shall continue to be heard and disposed by the latter as if the Puducherry Civil Courts (Amendment) Act, 2015 has not come into force in respect of such appeals.".
R. MARGARET ROSALINE, Secretary to Government (Law).
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