Bengal, Agra and Assam Civil Courts(Jharkhand Amendment) Act, 2018
No: 9 Dated: Jun, 11 2019
THE BENGAL, AGRA AND ASSAM CIVIL COURTS (JHARKHAND AMMENDMENT) ACT, 2018
(Act 09 of 2019)
An Act to consolidate and amend the law relating to the Civil Courts in Bengal, (the North - Western Provinces and Assam).
Whereas it is expedient to consolidate and amend the law relating to civil Courts in Bengal, (the North-Western Provinces and Assam;) It is hereby enacted as follows:
CHAPTER I
Preliminary
1. Title, extent and commencement. (1) This Act may be called the Bengal, Agra and Assam Civil Courts(Jharkhand Ammendment) Act, 2018.
(2) It extends to territories (which were on the 11th March, 1887) respectively administered by the Lieutenant- Governor of Bengal, (the Lieutenant-Governor of the North -Western Provinces and the Chief Commissioner of Assam) except such portions of those territories as for the time being are not subject to the ordinary civil jurisdiction of the High Court. and
(3) It shall come into force on the first day of July 1887.
2. (1) All courts constituted, appointments, nominations, rules and orders made, jurisdictions and powers conferred, and lists published under the Bengal Civil Courts Acts, 1871 or any enactment thereby repealed, or purporting expressly or impliedly to have been so constituted, made, conferred and published shall be deemed to have been respectively constituted, made, conferred and published under this Act; and
(2) Any enactment or document referring to the Bengal Civil Courts Acts, 1871, or to any enactment thereby repealed, shall be construed to refer to this Act or to the corresponding portion thereof.
CHAPTER II
Constitution of Civil Courts
3. Classes of Court. - There shall be the following classes of Civil Courts under this Act, namely:
(1) the Court of the Principal District Judge;
(2) the Court of the District judge;
(3) the Court of the Civil Judge (Senior Division)
(4) the Court of the Civil Judge (Junior Division).
4. Number of Principal District Judges, Civil Judge (Senior Division) and Civil Judge (Junior Division). - The (State) Government may alter the number of Principal District judges, Civil Judge (Senior Division) and Civil Judge (Junior Division)s now fixed)