Section 25: Power to invest Subordinate Judges and Munsifs with Small Cause Court jurisdiction.

TheState Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, confer, within such local limits as it thinks fit, upon any Subordinate Judge or Munsif the jurisdiction of a Judge of a Court of Small Causes under the Provinicial Small Cause Courts Act, 1887 (9 of 1887) for the trial of suits, cognizable by such Courts, up to such value not exceeding five hundred rupees in the case of a Subordinate Judge or two hundred and fifty rupees in the case of a Munsif as it thinks fit, and may withdraw any jurisdiction so conferred: Provided that the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, delegate to the High Court its powers under this section.

STATE AMENDMENT Assam Amendment of section 25.- In section 25 of the said Act, for the words "five hundred rupees", the words "seven hundred and fifty rupees" and for the words "two hundred and fifty rupees", the words "three hundred rupees" shall be substituted. [Vide Assam Act 6 of 1935, s. 7]