Section 28Subordination of Courts of Small Causes

s. 28

28. Subordination of Courts of Small Causes (1) A Court of Small Causes shall be subject to the administrative control of the District Court and to the superintendence of the [High Court Division], and shall- (a) keep such registers, books and accounts as the [High Court Division] from time to time prescribes, and (b) comply with such requisitions as may be made by the District Court, the [High Court Division] or the Government for records, returns and statements in such form and manner as the authority making the requisition directs. (2) The relation of the District Court to a Court of Small Causes, with respect to administrative control, shall be the same as that of the District Court to a Civil Court of the lowest grade competent to try an original suit of the value of [one lac Taka] in that portion of the territories administered by the Government in which the Court of Small Causes is established.

1. 14. The words “High Court Division” were substituted, for the words “High Court” by section 3 and 2nd Schedule of the Bangladesh Laws (Revision And Declaration) Act, 1973 (Act No. VIII of 1973).
2. 15. The words “High Court Division” were substituted, for the words “High Court” by section 3 and 2nd Schedule of the Bangladesh Laws (Revision And Declaration) Act, 1973 (Act No. VIII of 1973).
3. 16. The words “one lac Taka” were substituted, for the words “fifty thousand Taka” by section 4 of the Small Cause Courts (Amendment) Act, 1990 (Act No. XLVII of 1990).