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Appellate jurisdiction of Civil Judge.— (1) The 29 [Government] may invest any Senior Civil Judge with power to hear appeals from such decrees and orders of a Junior Civil Judge as may be referred to him by the District Judge. (2) Decrees and orders so passed in appeal by Senior Civil Judge, shall have the same force as if passed by a District Judge. (3)A Senior Civil Judge, on whom the power of hearing appeals has once been conferred under this section shall continue to have this power so long and so often as he may fill the office of Senior Civil Judge, without reference to the place in which he may be employed: Provided that the 19[Government] may by notification in the Official Gazette at any time withdraw such power. 24.30[…] 25.Power to invest Civil Judges with jurisdiction under special law.— (1) The 31 [Government] may by general or special order invest any Civil Judge within such local limits and subject to such pecuniary limitation as may be prescribed in such order, with all or any of the powers of a District Judge or a District Court as the case may be under any special law. Every order made by a Civil Judge by virtue of the powers conferred upon him under sub-section (1) shall be subject to appeal to the High Court or the District Court according as the amount or value of the subject matter exceeds or does not exceed ten thousand rupees. (3) Every order of the District Judge passed on appeal under sub- section (2) from the order of a Civil Judge shall be subject to an appeal to the High Court under the rules contained in the Code of Civil Procedure applicable to appeals from appellate decrees. PART IV Miscellaneous 26.Suits in which the Government is a party.— (1) No Court other than the 32[“District Court”] shall receive or register any suit in which the Central Government or the 33[Government of the Government of Goa] or any officer of Government in his official capacity, is a party: Provided that the 34 [Government] may by general or special order notified in the Official Gazette, direct that the provisions of this section shall not apply to any suit or class or category of suits of the nature referred to therein. (2) Nothing in this section shall be deemed to apply to a suit against the administration of a Government Railway. 35[26A.— Transfer of pending suits and bar on the jurisdiction. — All suits received or registered under section 26 and pending before any Court of a Senior Civil Judge immediately before the commencement of the Goa Civil Courts (Amendment) Act, 2004, shall, on such commencement, stand transferred to the District Court of the concerned district and such District Court may proceed to deal with such suit from the stage which was reached before such transfer or from any earlier stage or de novo, as such District Court may deem fit and no Court of any Senior Civil Judge shall entertain, try, dispose off or proceed to hear any matter where the Central Government or the Government of Goa or any officer of the Government in his official capacity, is a party to the proceedings.] 36[26B. Appeals.— Notwithstanding anything contained in section 6,— (a)an appeal shall lie to the High Court having jurisdiction over the State of Goa, from all decrees made by any Court of a Senior Civil Judge before the commencement of the Goa Civil Courts (Amendment) Act, 2004 (Act 5 of 2004), in any suit where the Central Government or the Government of Goa or any officer of the Government in his official capacity, is a party to the proceedings; (b)all appeals from any decree made by any Court of a Senior Civil Judge in any suit where the Central Government or the Government of Goa or any officer of the Government in his official capacity, is a party to the proceedings, pending before any District Court as on the date of commencement of the Goa Civil Courts (Amendment) Act, 2004 (Act 5 of 2004), shall stand transferred to the High Court having jurisdiction over the State of Goa.].