Section 28
Subordination of Courts of Small Causes.
The Provincial Small Cause Courts Act, 1887
About this Act
An Act to consolidate and amend the law relating to Courts of Small Causes established beyond the Presidency-towns.
(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, and shall--
(a) keep such registers, books and accounts as the High Court from time to time prescribes, and
(b) comply with such requisitions as may be made by the District Court, the High Court or the State 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 five thousand rupees in that portion of the territories administered by the State Gove rnment in which the Court of Small Causes is established.
(a) keep such registers, books and accounts as the High Court from time to time prescribes, and
(b) comply with such requisitions as may be made by the District Court, the High Court or the State 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 five thousand rupees in that portion of the territories administered by the State Gove rnment in which the Court of Small Causes is established.