Act Number: 47

Act Name: The Specific Relief Act, 1963

Year: 1963

Enactment Date: 1963-12-13

Long Title: An Act to define and amend the law relating to certain kinds of specific relief.

Ministry: Ministry of Law and Justice

Department: Legislative Department

Section 37: Temporary and perpetual injunctions.
    (1) Temporary injunctions are such as are to continue until a specific time, or until the further order of the court, and they maybe granted at any stage of a suit, and are regulated by the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (5 of 1908).
    (2) A perpetual injunction can only be granted by the decree made at the hearing and upon the merits of the suit; the defendant is thereby perpetually enjoined from the assertion of a right, or from the commission of an act, which would be contrary to the rights of the plaintiff.
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