Bare ActsThe Ahmedabad City Courts Act, 1961

Section 20

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(1) All suits and proceedings cognizable by the City Court and pending immediately before the appointed day in the District Court or the Court of a Civil Judge shall stand transferred to the City Court. (2) All suits and proceedings pending immediately before the appointed day in the Court of Small Causes, Ahmedabad, constituted under the Provincial Small Cause Courts Act, 1887, shall- (i) if they are cognizable by the Court of Small Causes of Ahmedabad constituted under the Presidency Small Cause Courts Act, 1882, stand transferred to that court and (ii) if not so cognizable be transferred to the court competent to take cognizance of such suits or proceedings. (3) All criminal proceedings cognizable by the Court of Session for the City of Ahmedabad and pending in the Court of Session at Ahmedabad as constituted immediately before the appointed day shall stand transferred to the Court of Session for the City of Ahmedabad. (4) All criminal proceedings pending before any Magistrate and cognizable by a Magistrate appointed under section 14 shall stand transferred to the Chief Magistrate appointed under that section. (5) An appeal or revision application against any judgement, decision, decree or order passed before the appointed day by a Court in the exercise of jurisdiction over the area within the limits of the City of Ahmedabad,— Bom. I of 1904. Amendment of Act No. XV of 1882 and Bom. LVII of 1947. XV of 1882. Bom. LVII of

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