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Puducherry

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March

2023

(16 Phalguna 1944)

Registered No.

PY/44/2021-23

GOVERNMENT OF PUDUCHERRY

LAW DEPARTMENT

No. 993/2019-LD.

Puducherry, dated 07th March 2023.

The following Act of the Legislative Assembly, Puducherry, received

the assent of the President of India on the 22nd day of February, 2023 and

is hereby published for general information.

N. MURUGAVEL,

Under Secretary to Government (Law).

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[PART–II

THE PUDUCHERRY CIVIL COURTS

(AMENDMENT) ACT, 2022

(Act No. 2 of 2023)

(22-02-2023)

A N

ACT

further to amend the Puducherry Civil Courts Act,

1966.

BE it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of

Puducherry in the Seventy-third Year of the Republic

of India as follows :—

1. (1) This Act may be called the Puducherry Civil

Courts (Amendment) Act, 2022.

(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 8,

the following shall be substituted, namely:-

“8. Jurisdiction

of

District

Judge,

Subordinate Judge and District Munsif in original

suits. - (1) The jurisdiction of the District Judge shall,

subject to the rules of procedure contained in the Code

of Civil Procedure, 1908 (hereinafter referred to in this

section as the said Code) for the time being in force,

extend to all original suits and proceedings of a civil

nature, of which the amount or value of the subject

matter exceeds rupees ten lakhs.

(2) The jurisdiction of the Subordinate

Judge shall, subject to the rules of procedure

contained in the said Code for the time being

in force, extend to all original suits and

proceedings of a civil nature, of which the

amount or value of the subject matter exceeds

rupees one lakh, but, does not exceed rupees

ten lakhs.

S h o r t

t i t l e ,

e x t e n t

a n d

commencement.

Amendment of

section 8.

Act

No. 12

o f

1966.

Act

No. 5

o f

1908.

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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) The jurisdiction of the District Munsif

shall extend to all like suits and proceedings not

otherwise exempted from his cognizance of

which the amount or value of the subject matter

does not exceed rupees one lakh.

Provided that the Government may by

notification in the Official Gazette increase the

jurisdiction as and when exigency arises.

3. (1) In the Principal Act, in section 9, in the

proviso to sub-section (3), for the words “rupees five

lakhs”, the words “rupees ten lakhs”, shall be

substituted.

(2) In the Principal Act, in section 9, the

Transitory provisions contained in sub-section (7), for

the existing clauses (1) and (3), the following shall be

substituted, namely:-

“(1) All suits pending in the District Courts

at Puducherry and Karaikal, when the amount

or the value of the subject matter of the suit is

up to rupees ten lakhs shall stand transferred

to the respective Subordinate Courts at

Puducherry and Karaikal having jurisdiction.

(3) All first appeals from the Decrees and

Orders of the Subordinate Courts at Puducherry,

Karaikal, Mahe and Yanam, and pending on the file of

the High Court of Judicature at Madras, and when the

amount or the value of the subject matter of such

appeals does not exceed rupees ten lakhs shall stand

transferred to the respective District Courts at

Puducherry and Karaikal having jurisdiction.”

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Published by The Director, Government Press, Puducherry.

Amendment of

section 9.