18. Save as otherwise provided by any enactment for the time being in force, the jurisdiction of a District Judge or ¹[Joint District] Judge extends, subject to the provisions of section 15 of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 to all original suits for the time being cognizable by Civil Courts.

²[19. (1) Save as otherwise provided by any enactment for the time being in force, the jurisdiction of a Senior Assistant Judge and an Assistant Judge shall extend to all suits of which the value does not exceed 25 (twenty five) lac Taka and 15 (fifteen) lac Taka respectively.

(2) The District Judge shall transfer the suit or proceeding pending before the Joint District Judge Court or the Senior Assistant Judge Court to the competent court within 90 (ninety) days from the date of enforcement of the Civil Courts (Amendment) Act, 2021.

(3) If any suit or proceeding is transferred under sub-section (2), the suit or proceeding shall start from the stage at which it was transferred.]

20. (1) Save as otherwise provided by any enactment for the time being in force, an appeal from a decree or order of a District Judge or ⁴[Additional District] Judge shall lie to the High Court Division. (2) An appeal shall not lie to the High Court Division from a decree or order of an ⁵[Additional District] Judge in any case in which, if the decree or order had been made by the District Judge, an appeal would not lie to that Court.

21.⁷[(1) Save as aforesaid, an appeal from a decree or order of a Joint District Judge shall lie-

(a) to the District Judge where the value of the original suit in which or in any proceeding arising out of which the decree or order was made did not exceed 5 (five) crore Taka; and

(b) to the High Court Division in any other case.

(1A) No appeal or proceeding pending before the High Court Division shall be transferred to the District Judge only because of the enhancement of pecuniary jurisdiction of a District Judge by the Civil Courts (Amendment) Act, 2021.]

(2) Save as aforesaid, an appeal from a decree or order of a ⁸[Senior Assistant Judge or an Assistant Judge] shall lie to the District Judge.

(3) Where the function of receiving any appeals which lie to the District Judge under sub-section (1) or sub-section (2) has been assigned to an ⁹[Additional District] Judge, the appeals may be preferred to the ¹⁰[Additional District] Judge.

(4) The High Court Division may, with the previous sanction of the Government, direct, by notification in the official Gazette, that appeals lying to the District Judge under sub-section (2) from all or any of the decrees or orders of any ¹¹[Senior Assistant Judge or an Assistant Judge], shall be preferred to the Court of such ¹²[Joint District] Judge as may be mentioned in the notification, and the appeals shall thereupon be preferred accordingly.