BENGAL,
AGRA, ASSAM AND SHILLONG CIVIL COURTS (MEGHALAYA AMENDMENT) ACT, 1983 THE BENGAL, AGRA, ASSAM AND SHILLONG CIVIL COURTS (MEGHALAYA AMENDMENT)
ACT, 1983 [Act No. 10 of 1983] [03rd September, 1983] An Act further to amend the Bengal, Agra, Assam and Shillong Civil
Courts, Act, 1887 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act) in its
application to the State of Meghalaya. Be it enacted by the Legislature
of Meghalaya in the Thirty-fourth Year of the Republic of India as follows:- (i)
This Act may be called the Bengal, Agra, Assam and Shillong
(Amendment) Act, 1983. (ii)
It shall have the like extent as the principal Act. (iii)
It shall come into force at once. In Section 19 of the
principal Act, in sub-section (2), for the words "five thousand
rupees" the words "ten thousand rupees" shall be substituted. In Section 21 of the
principal Act, in sub-section (1), in clause (a), for the words, "seven
thousand rupees" the words "twenty thousand rupees' shall be
substituted, (1)
The provision of clause (a) sub-section (1) of Section 21 of the
principal Act as amended by Section 3 of this Act shall apply irrespective of
the fact that suits, proceedings decrees or orders out of which the appeals
referred to therein arise were instituted or made prior to the commencement of
this Act. (2)
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in the
Limitation Act, 1963 (Central Act 36 of 1963), an appeal from a decree or
orders made before the commencement of this act, which but for the provisions
of this Act, would have been preferred before the high Court within ninety days
from the date of such decree or order, shall be preferred to the District Judge
within the said period. Nothing in this Act shall
be deemed to effect any appeal instituted prior to the commencement of this
Act.
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