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GOVERNMENT OF PUDUCHERRY
LAW DEPARTMENT
No. 167/2015-LD.
Puducherry, the 6th July 2017.
The following Act of the Legislative Assembly, Puducherry, received
the assent of the President of India on the 20th day of June, 2017 and is
hereby published for general information.
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No. 41
Poudouchéry
Jeudi
6
Juillet
2017
No.
Puducherry
Thursday
6th
July
2017
( 15 Asadha 1939 )
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THE PUDUCHERRY CIVIL COURTS
(AMENDMENT) ACT, 2017
(Act No. 9 of 2017)
(20-6-2017)
AN
ACT
further to amend the Puducherry Civil Courts
Act, 1966.
BE it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of
Puducherry in the Sixty-seventh Year of the Republic
of India as follows:—
1. (1) This Act may be called the Puducherry
Civil Courts (Amendment) Act, 2017.
(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),
for section 9, the following shall be substituted,
namely:—
"9. Appeal from Decrees and Orders of
District Courts, Subordinate Courts and
District Munsif Courts.— (1) Appeals from
the Decrees and Orders of District Judges at
Puducherry and Karaikal shall, when such
appeals are allowed by law, lie to the High
Court of Judicature at Madras.
(2) Appeals from the Decrees and Orders of the
Subordinate Judges at Puducherry shall, when such
appeals are allowed by law, lie to the Court of District
Judge at Puducherry.
Short title,
and
commencement.
Act.
No.
12 of
1966.
Amendment of
section 9.
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(3) 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:
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.
(4) Appeals from the Decrees and Orders of the
Subordinate Judge at 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.
(5) Appeals from the Decrees and Orders of
Subordinate Judge at Karaikal shall, when such appeals
are allowed by law, lie to the Court of District Judge
at Karaikal.
(6) Appeals from the Decrees and Orders of
District Munsifs shall, when such appeals are allowed
by law, lie to the Court of Subordinate Judge.
Provided however that the pecuniary limit
specified in this section shall not apply in the case of
appeals from Decrees and Orders passed under and in
accordance with the French law relating to civil
procedure.
(7)
Transitory provisions.— (1) All suits
pending in the District Court, Karaikal, when the
amount or the value of the subject matter of the suit
exceeds rupees one lakh but, does not exceed rupees
five lakhs shall stand transferred to the Subordinate
Court at Karaikal.
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(2) All first appeals from the Decrees and Orders
of the District Munsif Court at Karaikal and pending
on the file of the District Court at Karaikal and when
the amount or the value of the subject matter of such
appeals does not exceed rupees one lakh shall stand
transferred to the Subordinate Court at Karaikal.
(3) All suits pending in the Subordinate Court at
Mahe, where the amount or the subject matter of the
suit does not exceed rupees one lakh shall stand
transferred to the District Munsif Court at Mahe.
(4) All the part-heard and judgment reserved
suits and appeal shall be heard and disposed of by the
respective Courts as if, this Act has not been passed."
3. In the Principal Act, the existing section 9A
shall be deleted.
4. In the Principal Act, in section 15, the words
"District Judge or", wherever they occur, shall be
deleted.
5. In the Principal Act, in the Transitory
provisions contained in section 15, for the existing
clause (2), the following shall be substituted, namely:—
"All small cause suits pending on the file of the
District Court, Karaikal, where the amount or the
subject value of such small cause suits exceeds rupees
two thousand but, does not exceed rupees five thousand
shall stand transferred to the Subordinate Court at
Karaikal."
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Amendment of
section 9A.
Amendment of
section 15.