Chapter IV
SPECIAL JURISDICTION
Power to invest Joint District Judges and [Senior Assistant Judges or Assistant Judges with Small Cause Court jurisdiction]
25. The Government may, by notification in the official Gazette, confer, within such local limits as it thinks fit, upon any [Joint District] Judge or [Senior Assistant Judge or Assistant Judge] the jurisdiction of a Judge of a Court of Small Causes under the [* * *]
Small Cause Courts Act, 1887, for the trail of suits, cognizable by such Courts, up to such value not exceeding [twenty thousand Taka in the case of a [Joint District] Judge or ten thousand Taka in the case of [a Senior Assistant Judge or six thousand Taka in the case of an Assistant Judge]] as it thinks fit, and may withdraw any jurisdiction so conferred:
Provided that the Government may, by notification in the official Gazette, delegate to the High Court Division its powers under this section.
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