Section 19
Power to invest Assistant Judge with powers of District Judge.
The Bombay Civil Courts Act, 1869
About this Act
An Act to consolidate and amend the law relating to the District and Subordinate Civil Courts in the Presidency of Bombay.
The Governor of Bombay in
Council may, by notification in the Government Gazette, invest an Assistant Judge with all or any of the
powers of a District Judge within a particular part of a District, and may, by like notification, from time to
time determine and alter the limits of such Part.
The jurisdiction of an Assistant Judge so invested shall pro tanto exclude the jurisdiction of the District Judge from within the said limits.
Every Assistant Judge so invested shall ordinarily hold his Court at such place within the local limits of his jurisdiction as may be determined by the Governor of Bombay in Council, and may, with the previous sanction of the High Court, hold it at any other place within such limits.
The jurisdiction of an Assistant Judge so invested shall pro tanto exclude the jurisdiction of the District Judge from within the said limits.
Every Assistant Judge so invested shall ordinarily hold his Court at such place within the local limits of his jurisdiction as may be determined by the Governor of Bombay in Council, and may, with the previous sanction of the High Court, hold it at any other place within such limits.