Power to fix local limits of jurisdiction of Courts

Power to fix local limits of jurisdiction of Courts.—

1. (1) The State Government may in consultation with the High Court by notification in the Official Gazette, fix and alter the local limits of the jurisdiction of any Civil Court under this Act.
2. (2) If the same local jurisdiction is assigned to two or more Civil Judges, the Principal District Judge may assign to each of them such civil cases as the case may be, subject to any general or special orders of the High Court, it may think fit.
3. (3) When Civil proceeding arising in any local area is assigned by the Principal District Judge to one of two or more Civil Judges under sub-section (2), a decree or order so passed shall not be invalid by reason only of the case in which it was made having arisen wholly or in part in a place beyond that local area if that place is within the local limits fixed under sub-section (1).
4. (4) The present local limits of the jurisdiction of every Civil Court under this Act shall be deemed to have been fixed under this section.