Civil Procedure Code (Amendment)

Civil Procedure Code (Amendment) IN ACT TO AMEND THE CIVIL PROCEDURE CODE AND TO EFFECT CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS IN OTHER WRITTEN LAWS, BE it enacted by the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty, say and with the advice and consent of the Senate and the House of Representatives of Ceylon in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: – Short title. 1. This Act may be cited as the Civil Procedure Code (Amendment) Act, No. 24 of 1969. Amendment of sections 338, 394, 519, 542. 545, 547 and 582 of the Civil Procedure Code. 2. (1) Sections 338, 394, 519, 542, 545, 547 and 582 of the Civil Procedure Code are hereby amended by the substitution, for the words ” two thousand five hundred rupees “, wherever those words occur Collectively in those sections, of the words ” twenty thousand rupees “. (2) The marginal notes to sections 519, 545 and 547 of the Civil Procedure Code are hereby amended by the substitution, for the words ” two thousand five hundred rupees “, wherever those words occur collectively in those marginal notes, of the words ” twenty thousand rupees “. Amendment of Part III of Schedule A to the Stamp Ordinance. 3. The Stamp Ordinance is hereby amended in schedule A to that Ordinance, in Part III of that schedule, as follows: – (a) under the heading ” Class 1 “, by the substitution, for the words and figures ” Up to and including Rs. 5,000 “, of the words and figures ” Up to and including Rs. 20,000 “; (b) under the heading ” Class 2 “, by the substitution, for the words and figures ” Over Rs. 5,000 up to and including Rs. 10,000 “, of the words and figures ” Over Rs, 20,000 up to and including Rs. 30,000 “; (c) under the heading ” Class 3 “, by the substitution, for the words and figures ” Over Rs. 10,000 “, of the words and figures ” Over Rs. 30,000 “; and (d) in paragraph 2 of that Part, by the substitution, for the figures ” 5,000 “, of the figures ” 20,000 “. Construction of references to administration of estates of or above two thousand five hundred rupees in any written law other than the Civil Procedure Code. 4. Wherever reference is made in any written law other than the Civil Procedure Code, whether expressly or by implication, to the administration through a court of competent testamentary jurisdiction of an estate of or above the value of two thousand five hundred rupees, such written law shall, unless the context otherwise requires, be read and construed as though the expression ” twenty thousand rupees had been substituted for the expression ” twelve thousand five hundred rupees ” wherever the latter expression occurs, or, in cases where such reference is by way of implication only, as though such. references related to an estate of or above the value of twenty thousand rupees.