Jurisdiction to hear certain suits

Jurisdiction to hear certain suits.-

1. (1) The Court of a Subordinate Judge shall have jurisdiction to hear, irrespective of the amount or value of the subject-matter, all suits to which this Act applies.
2. (2) Save as otherwise provided in sub-section
3. (3) and notwithstanding anything to the contrary in section 16 of the Jammu and Kashmir State Small Cause Courts Act, 1968, no Court exercising jurisdiction under the said Act and no Court inferior to the Court of a Subordinate Judge shall hear any such suit.
4. (3) The High Court of the Jammu and Kashmir State may, by notification, empower any Munsiff or Tehsildar to hear all or any such suits the amount or value of the subject-matter of which does not exceed five hundred rupees, and may likewise subject to the aforesaid limit of five hundred rupees, determine the jurisdiction of the Munsiff or Tehsildar so empowered: