Power to fix local limits of jurisdiction of Courts.

(1) The State Government may, by notification in the official Gazette, fix and alter the local limits of the jurisdiction of any Civil Court under this Act. (2) If the same local jurisdiction is assigned to two or more Civil Judge (Senior Division) or to two or more Civil Judge (Junior Division)s, the Principal District Judge may assign to each of them such civil business cognizable by the Civil Judge (Senior Division) or Civil Judge (Junior Division) as the case may be, as subject to any general or special order of the High Court, he thinks fit. (3) When civil business arising in any local area is assigned by the Principal District Judge under sub-Section (2), to one of two or more Civil Judge (Senior Division) or to one of two or more Civil Judge (Junior Division), a decree or order passed by the Civil Judge (Senior Division) or Civil Judge (Junior Division) 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 the local area if that place is within the local limits fixed by the (State) Government under sub-Section (1). (4) A Judge of a Court of Small Causes appointed be also Civil Judge (Senior Division) or Civil Judge (Junior Division) is a Civil Judge (Senior Division) or Civil Judge (Junior Division), as the case may be, within the meaning of this section. (5) The present local limits of the jurisdiction of every Civil Court under this Act shall be deemed to have been fixed under this section.