BENGAL, AGRA AND ASSAM CIVIL COURTS (BIHAR AMENDMENT) ACT, 2013

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    "title": "BENGAL, AGRA AND ASSAM CIVIL COURTS (BIHAR AMENDMENT) ACT, 2013",
    "short_title": "Bengal, Agra and Assam Civil Courts (Bihar Amendment) Act, 2013",
    "act_number": "14",
    "act_year": 2014,
    "act_type": "STATE",
    "location": "Bihar",
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    "enactment_date": "2014-08-25",
    "description": "Bengal, Agra and Assam Civil Courts (Bihar Amendment) Act, 2013",
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        {
            "number": "1",
            "title": "An ACT",
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            "content": "An Act to amend the Bengal, Agra and Assam Civil Courts Act, 1887 (Act 12 of 1887) in its application to the State of Bihar.\nBe it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Bihar in the Sixty-fourth Year of Republic of India as follows:--",
            "footnote": "12 of 1887; Published in Bihar Gazette (Ex.-ord.) dated 25.8.2014.",
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        {
            "number": "1",
            "title": "Section 1. Short title, extent and commencement",
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        {
            "number": "1",
            "title": "Section 1(1)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "This Act may be called the Bengal, Agra and Assam Civil Courts (Bihar Amendment) Act, 2013.",
            "footnote": "",
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        {
            "number": "1",
            "title": "Section 1(2)",
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            "content": "It shall extend to the whole of the State of Bihar.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "1",
            "title": "Section 1(3)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "It shall come into force 30 days after the date of its publication in the Official Gazette.",
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        {
            "number": "2",
            "title": "Section 2. Amendment in Section-3 of the Bengal, Agra and Assam Civil Courts Act, 1887 (Act 12 of 1887)",
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            "content": "In Bengal, Agra and Assam Civil Courts Act, 1887 (Act 12 of 1887) (hereinafter referred to as the said Act) in Clause-(3) of Section-3 for the words \"Subordinate Judge\" words and bracket \"Civil Judge (Senior Division)\" and in Clause (4) for the words \"Munsif\" the words and bracket \"Civil Judge (Junior Division)\" shall be substituted'.",
            "footnote": "12 of 1887",
            "is_definition": false,
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        {
            "number": "3",
            "title": "Section 3. Amendment in Act 12 of 1887",
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            "content": "In the said Act, the words \"Subordinate Judge\" and the word \"Munsif\" wherever used shall be substituted by the words and bracket \"Civil Judge (Senior Division)\" and \"Civil Judge (Junior Division) respectively.",
            "footnote": "12 of 1887",
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            "sort_order": 60
        },
        {
            "number": "4",
            "title": "Section 4. Amendment in Section-19 of the Act 12 of 1887",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "In the said Act in Section-19 the words \"the Jurisdiction of Munsif extends to all like suits of which the value does not exceed Thirty thousand rupees\" shall be substituted by the words, numbers and bracket \"the Jurisdiction of Civil Judge (Junior Division) extends to all like suits of which the value does not exceed rupees 1,50,000/- (One lac fifty thousand rupees)\".",
            "footnote": "12 of 1887",
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        {
            "number": "5",
            "title": "Section 5. Amendment in Section-21 of the Act 12 of 1887",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "In the said Act in Clause (a) of Sub-section (1) of Section-21 the words \"Two lacs rupees\" shall be substituted by the number, bracket and words \"rupees 10,00,000/- (rupees Ten lacs)\".",
            "footnote": "12 of 1887",
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        },
        {
            "number": "6",
            "title": "Section 6. Savings",
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            "content": "Notwithstanding anything contained in this Act, the suits filed prior to the enforcement of this Act shall remain unaffected.",
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    "metadata": {
        "Act ID": "201414",
        "Act Number": "14",
        "Enactment Date": "2014-08-25",
        "Act Year": "2014",
        "Short Title": "Bengal, Agra and Assam Civil Courts (Bihar Amendment) Act, 2013",
        "Department": "Law Department, Government of Bihar",
        "Type": "STATE",
        "Location": "Bihar"
    },
    "updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:55:17"
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