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The Ahmedabad City Courts Act, 1961
The Ahmedabad City Courts Act, 1961
Sections
1. Short title and commencement.
Section 12. Definitions.
Section 23. Constitution of City Court.
Section 34. Subordination to and superintendence by High Court.
Section 45. Appointment of Judges.
Section 56. Powers of Judges when City Court consists of more than one Judge.
Section 67. Registrar.
Section 78. Questions arising in suits, etc. under Act to be dealt with according to law administered by District Court.
Section 89. Appeals and limitation.
Section 910. Seal of the City Court.
Section 1011. Holidays and vacation.
Section 1112. Construction of reference to District Court and District Judge in laws operating in the City of Ahmedabad.
Section 1217. Act No. XV of 1882 to come into force in the City of Ahmedabad.
Section 1718. Amendment of Act No. XV of 1882 and Bombay LVII of 1947.
Section 1819. Enactments not to be in force in the City of Ahemadabad.
Section 1920. Special provisions for transfer of pending proceedings.
Section 2023. Special provisions for transfer or continuance of pending proceedings on inclusion of area.
Section 2324. Special provision for transfer or continuance of pending proceedings on exclusion of area.
Section 2425. Removal of doubt.
Section 25
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"content": "[(1-A) \"Amending Act\" means the Ahmedabad City Courts (Amendment) Act, 1980 (Gujarat 33 of 1980);]\n(1) \"appointed day\" means the day on which the remaining provisions of this Act come into force under sub-section (2) of Section 1;\n[(2) \"City of Ahmedabad\" means the areas within the limits of the City of Ahmedabad as constituted under the Corporations Act, immediately before the specified date:\n(3) \"City Court\" means the Court established under Section 3;\n[(4) \"Corporations Act\" means the Bombay Provincial Municipal Corporations Act, 1949;]\n(5) \"High Court\" means the High Court of Gujarat;\n(6) \"Small Causes Court\" means the Court of Small Causes of Ahmedabad;\n[(7) \"Specified date\" means the date of the coming into force of the Amending Act.]\nChapter II\nConstitution of City Civil Court for the City of Ahmedabad",
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"content": "(a) every decree passed by any Judge of the City Court, and\n(b) such orders passed by such Judge as are specified in, and to the extent provided by Section 104 of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (V of 1908).",
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"title": "12. Construction of reference to District Court and District Judge in laws operating in the City of Ahmedabad.",
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"content": "Chapter III\nCriminal Courts for the City of Ahmedabad\n13.\n14.\n14A.\n15.\n16.\nChapter IV\nThe Court of Small Causes for the City of Ahmedabad",
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"title": "17. Act No. XV of 1882 to come into force in the City of Ahmedabad.",
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"content": "(a) with effect on and from the specified date, it shall also extend to and come into force in those areas of the City of Ahmedabad as constituted under the Corporations Act, which were included in the said City under the said Act, after the appointed day, but before the specified date.\n(b) with effect on and from the date of inclusion in, or exclusion from, the City of Ahmedabad as defined in clause (2) of Section 2, of any area, by a notification issued under the proviso to that clause, it shall also extend to and come into force in the area so included in the said City, or, as the case may be, cease to and be in force in the extended area so excluded from the said City, by such notification:",
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"title": "18. Amendment of Act No. XV of 1882 and Bombay LVII of 1947.",
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"title": "19. Enactments not to be in force in the City of Ahemadabad.",
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"content": "(a) with effect on and from the specified date cease to apply to or be in force in those areas of the City of Ahmedabad as constituted under the Corporations Act which were included therein under the said Act, after the appointed day, but before the specified date;\n(b) with effect on and from the date of inclusion in, or exclusion from, the City of Ahmedabad as defined in clause (2) of Section 2 of any area by notification issued under the proviso to that clause, cease to apply to or be in force in the areas so included in the said City, or apply to or be in force in the areas so excluded from the said City, by such notification:",
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"content": "(i) if they are cognizable by the Court of Small Causes of Ahmedabad constituted under the Presidency Small Cause Courts Act, 1882 (XV of 1882), stand transferred to that Court and\n(ii) if not so cognizable be transferred to the Court competent to take cognizance of such suits or proceedings.\n(i) if it was pending immediately before the appointed day in a competent Court, shall stand transferred to the Court corresponding to the competent Court, and\n(ii) if before the appointed day it has not been preferred within the period of limitation to a competent Court, shall lie within that period to the Court corresponding to the competent Court.\n[21. Amendment of certain Acts in their application to the City of Ahmedabad.\n[22. Construction of reference to the City of Ahmedabad in Acts.",
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"content": "(i) if it was pending immediately before the specified date or, as the case may be, the date of inclusion in any District Court or Court of any Civil Judge other than the City Court, stand transferred to the City Court, and\n(ii) if before the specified date or, as the case may be, the date of inclusion it has not been preferred within the period of limitation to a competent Court, lie within that period to the City Court.",
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Extent and commencement in the City of Ahmedabad.\n(a) with effect on and from the date of the commencement of the Ahmedabad City Courts (Amendment) Act, 1980 (Gujarat 33 of 1980)) it shall also extend to and come into force in those areas of the City of Ahmedabad as constituted under the Bombay Provincial Municipal Corporations Act, 1949 (Bombay LIX of 1949) which were included in the said City under the latter Act after the appointed day, but before the date of the commencement of the former Act.\n(b) with effect on and from the date of inclusion of or exclusion from, the city of Ahmedabad as defined in clause (2) of Section 2 of the Ahmedabad City Courts Act, 1961 (Gujarat XIX of 1961) of any area by a notification issued under that clause, it shall also extend to and come into force in the area included in the said City, or as the case may be, cease to extend to and be in force in the area excluded from the said City by such notification:\n2.\n(1) after the words \"as the case may be\" the words \"or in the City of Ahmedabad\" shall be inserted, and\n3.\n\"(2) In the City of Ahmedabad there shall be a Court to be called the Court of Small Causes of Ahmedabad.\"\n4.\n\"(2) The Court of Small Causes of Ahmedabad shall be deemed to be a Court subject to the superintendence of the High Court of Gujarat and to be a Court subordinate to that High Court within the meaning of Section 6 of the Legal Practitioners Act, 1879 (18 of 1879), and that High Court shall have in respect of the Small Causes Court of Ahmedabad the same powers as it has in respect of the Courts subject to its appellate jurisdiction.\".\n5.\n6.\n(i) in sub-section (1) so renumbered, for the words \"The local limits\" where they occur for the first time, the words, brackets and figure \"Save as otherwise provided in sub-section (2), the local limits\" shall be substituted;\n(ii) after sub-section (1), the following sub-section shall be inserted, namely:-\n\"(2) The local limits of the jurisdiction of the Court of Small Causes of Ahmedabad shall be the local limits of the City of Ahmedabad\".\n7.\n(a) the words \"and all suits whereof the amount of the value of the subject-matter exceeds one thousand rupees\" shall be deleted, and\n(b) for the words \"High Court\" the words \"Ahmedabad City Civil Court\" shall be substituted.\n8.\n\"22. Costs when plaintiff sues in Ahmedabad City Civil Court in other cases cognizable by Small Causes Court.\n(a) if the Plaintiff does not obtain a decree, the Defendant shall be entitled to his costs and may also be awarded such additional amount not exceeding one thousand rupees by way of compensation as the Judge may award; or\n(b) if the Plaintiff obtains a decree for any matter of an amount or value less than two thousand rupees, no costs shall be allowed to the Plaintiff.\n9.\n10.\n11.\n12.\n13.\n14.\n(1) the first sentence shall be numbered as sub-section (1) and in that sub-section so numbered for the words \"five days\" the words \"fifteen days\" shall be substituted and to that sub-section, the following proviso shall be added, namely :-\n\"Provided that where the Judge is satisfied that there is sufficient cause for extending the period within which an application may be made under this sub-section, he may extend the period to such extent as he may consider necessary.\";\n(2) the second sentence shall be numbered as sub-section (2).\n15.\n16.\n17.\n(1) for the words \"High Court\" the words \"Ahmedabad City Civil Court\" shall be substituted;\n(2) for the words \"at the expiration of five days from the seizure of property under this chapter\" the following words, brackets and figures shall be substituted, namely:-\n\"at the expiration of fifteen days from the seizure of property under this chapter or, as the case may be, of the extended period under the proviso to sub-section (1) of Section 60.\"\n18.\n19.\n20.\n21.\nAmendments to the Bombay Rents, Hotel and Lodging House Rates Control Act, 1947, in its Application to the City of Ahmedabad\nAmendments to the Bombay Rents, Hotel and Lodging House Rates Control Act, 1947, in its Application to the City of Ahmedabad\n1.\n\"(a) in the City of Ahmedabad, the Court of Small Causes of Ahmedabad.\".\n2.\n(1) in sub-section (1),-\n(a) before clause (b), the following clause shall be inserted, namely:-\n\"(a) in the City of Ahmedabad, from a decree or order made by the Court of Small Causes, Ahmedabad, exercising jurisdiction under Section 28, to a bench of the two judges said Court which shall not include the judge who made such decree or order,\";\n(b) in clause (b) for the words \"from a decree\" the words \"elsewhere from a decree\" shall be substituted;\n(c) in the proviso in clause II,\nA. before sub-clause (ii), insert the following sub-clause, namely :-\n\"(i) where such suit or proceeding is instituted in the City of Ahmedabad, two thousand rupees,\"; and\nB. in sub-clause (ii), for the words \"the amount upto\" the words \"where such suit or proceeding is instituted elsewhere the amount upto\" shall be substituted.\n(2) in sub-section (3), after the words \"in any suit or proceeding\" the words \"in the City of Ahmedabad the bench of two judges specified in clause (a) of sub-section (1) and elsewhere\" shall be inserted.\".\n(i) In Section 18, after sub-section (1) the following shall be inserted, namely:-\n\"(2) Nothing contained in sub-section (1) of this section or in Section 20 shall apply to fees payable to pleaders in the Court of Small Causes of Ahmedabad.\".\n(ii) In Section 23, for the words \"subordinate to the High Court\" the words \"other than the Court of Small Causes of Ahmedabad subordinate to the High Court\" shall be substituted.\n(i) In Section 8, after the words \"Calcutta, Madras and Bombay\" the words \"and in the City of Ahmedabad\" shall be inserted.]",
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