[ 371 ]
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.
Registered with the Registrar
of Newspapers for India under
No. M. 8270
La Gazette de L' État de Poudouchéry
The Gazette of Puducherry
PART - II
EXTRAORDINAIRE
EXTRAORDINARY
Publiée par
Published by
Autorité
Authority
` 2-00
Prix : ` 2-00
Price :
` 2-00
2015 }
|
9 {
No. 45
Poudouchéry
Mardi
9
Juin
2015
No.
Puducherry
Tuesday
9th
June
2015
( 19 Jyaistha 1937 )
Registered No.
SSP/PY/44/2015-17
WPP No. TN/PMG(CCR)/
WPP-88/2015-17
Dated : 9-6-2015
Price : ` 2-00
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.
(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.
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,—
(i) in sub-section (2), the words “Mahe and Yanam”
shall be deleted,
(ii) after sub-section (2), the following sub-sections
shall be inserted, namely:–
“(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:
Act
No.12
of
1966.
S h o rt t i t le ,
e xt e n t a n d
commencement.
Amendment
of section 8.
Amendment
of section 9.
373
PART–II]
LA GAZETTE DE L'ETAT
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:–
“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).
———
Transitory
Provisions.
Insertion of
new
section 9A.
online publication at “http://styandptg.puducherry.gov.in”
Government Central Press
Directorate of Stationery and Printing
Puducherry-9.