BENGAL, AGRA AND ASSAM CIVIL COURTS (EXTENSION TO OUDH) ACT, 1955
No: 2 Dated: Jan, 11 1956
BENGAL, AGRA AND ASSAM CIVIL COURTS (EXTENSION TO OUDH) ACT, 1955
बंगाल, आगरा एण्ड आसाम सिविल कोर्ट्स (अवध में प्रसार) अधिनियम, 1955
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1. (i) This Act may be called the Bengal, Agra and Assam Civil Courts (Extension to Oudh) Act, 1955.
(ii) It shall come into force at once.
(ii) It shall come into force at once.
2. With effect from the date of the commencement of this Act the provisions of —
(a) Section 3, 4, 6, 8, 9 to 11, 13 to 25, 38 and 39 ; and
(b) Section 40 [with the modification that in sub-section (1) the figures 32 and 37 shall be deleted] of the Bengal, Agra and Assam Civil Courts Act, 1887 (as amended from time to time in their application to Uttar Pradesh) shall apply to the territories to which the Oudh Courts Act, 1925, is applicable and the corresponding provisions of the Oudh Courts Act, 1925 shall thereupon stand repealed accordingly.
3. All courts established or constituted and appointments, nominations, rules and order made, jurisdictions and powers conferred and lists published under the Oudh Courts Act, 1925, shall be deemed to have been respectively established, constituted, made, conferred and published under the provisions of the Bengal, Agra and Assam Civil Courts Act, 1887, as herein applied to Oudh.
4. All suits and proceedings instituted or commenced before the commencement of this Act in any Court constituted or stablished under the Oudh Courts Act, 1925, shall be continued in the Court, where they were instituted or commenced or to which they may have been transferred notwithstanding the repeal of the provisions of the said Act, as if they had been instituted or commenced in a Court constituted and established under the Bengal, Agra and Assam Civil Courts Act, 1887.
5. Where by reason of the application of the provision of section 21 of the Bengal, Agra and Assam Civil Courts Act, 1887 to Oudh an appeal shall now lie to the District Judge, and not to the High Court-