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(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in the Bengal, Agra Civil 9 of 1887. and Assam Civil Courts Act, 1887, the Provincial Small Cause Courts jurisdiction. 5 of 1908. Act, 1887, and the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908, and subject to the provisions of sections 62 and 63, a Nyaya Panchayat shall have, within 301 The West Bengal Panchayat Act, 1973. [West Ben. Act Suits not to be tried. Suits to include whole claim (Part 11.—Gram Panchayat.—Chapter VII. —Nyaya Panchayats.—Sections 62, 63.) the local limits of the Gram Panchayat constituting such Nyaya Panchayat, jurisdiction to try the following classes of suits when the value of the suit does not exceed two hundred and fifty rupees, namely:— (a) suits for money due on contracts; (b) suits for the recovery of movable property or the value of such property; (c) suits for compensation for wrongfully taking or damaging movable property; and (d) suits for damages by cattle-trespass. (2) No other court shall have jurisdiction to try any suit of the classes mentioned in sub-section (1): Provided that nothing in this Act shall take away the jurisdiction of any court to try a suit which a Nyaya Panchayat is prohibited by section 78 from trying or which should be, in the opinion of the Nyaya Panchayat or of the District Judge exercising the power conferred by sub-section (2) of section 79, tried by an ordinary court.