Chapter I PRELIMINARY.

(1) This Act may be called the Ahmedabad City Courts Act, 1961. (2) This section shall come into force at once and the remaining provisions of this Act shall come into force on such day as the State Government may by notification in the Official Gazette appoint.

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires— (1A) "Amending Act" means the Ahmedabad City Courts (Amendment) Act, 1980; (1) " appointed day" means the day on which the remaining provisions of this Act come into force under sub- section (2) of section 1; (2) "City of Ahmedabad" means the areas within the limits of the City of Ahmedabad as constituted under the Corporations Act, immediately before the specified date : Provided that as and when the limits of the City of Ahmedabad as constituted under the Corporations Act, are altered under sub-section (2) of section 3 of that Act, by the inclusion therein, or exclusion therefrom, of any area, the State Government may, by a notification in the Official Gazette, alter the limits of the City of Ahmedabad as defined in this clause by including therein, or excluding therefrom, with effect on and from such date as may be specified in such notification, any such area as is so included in, or excluded from, the limits of the City of Ahmedabad as constituted under the Corporations Act; (3) "City Court" means the Court established under section 3; (4) "Corporations Act" means the Bombay Provincial Municipal Corporations Act, 1949; (5) “High Court" means the High Court of Gujarat; (6) "Small Cause Court" means the Court of Small Causes of Ahmedabad; (7) "Specified date" means the date of the coming into force of the Amending Act.