Amendment of section 9 of Act VII of

For section 9 of the Suits Valuation Act, 1887, in its application to the State of Maharashtra (hereinafter referred to as "the Suits Valuation Act"), the following section shall be, and shall be deemed always to have been, substituted, namely:—

Value of certain suits to be three hundred rupees. "9. Where the subject-matter of suits other than suits mentioned in the Court-fees Act, 1870, section 7, paragraphs

1. (v) and (vi), and paragraph (x), clause (d), or in any corresponding provision of the Court-fees Act, for the time being in force in any area in the State, is such that it does not admit of being satisfactorily valued, then such suits shall, for the purposes of this Act, and if the High Court, with the previous sanction of the State Government, so directs also for the purposes of any other enactment for the time being in force specified in that behalf by the High Court, be treated as if their subject-matter of the value of three hundred rupees; and the provisions of the last preceding section shall apply as if the court-fees therein are payable ad valorem under the relevant Court-fees Act."