Section 12:
Registrar.
112. Registrar.---2[(1) There may be appointed to a Court of Small Causes an officer to be called the
Registrar of the Court.]
(2) Where a Registrar is appointed, he shall be the chief ministerial officer of the Court.
(3) The State Government may, by order in writing, confer upon a Registrar, within the
local limits of the jurisdiction of the Court, the jurisdiction of a Judge of a Court of Small
Causes for the trial of suits of which the value does not exceed twenty rupees.
(4) The Registrar shall try such suits cognizable by him as the Judge may, by general or special order,
direct.
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Notes:
1. This section has been amended in its application to the Bombay Presidency by the Provincial Small Cause Courts (Bombay
Amendment) Act, 1930 (Bom. 6 of 1930), s. 2.
2. Subs. by the A.O. 1937, for the original sub-section which read: "(1) The L. G. may appoint to a Court of Small Causes an
officer to be called the Registrar of the Court."
3. Sub-section (5), which read: "A Registrar may be suspended or removed from office by the L.G." was rep. by the
A. O. 1937.