14. Power to appoint Assistant Judges.—The Governor of Bombay in Council, under the general
control of the Governor General of India in Council, may appoint one or more Assistants to the District
Judge, and may suspend or remove from his appointment any Assistant so appointed.
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15. Situation of Assistant Judge’s Court.—An Assistant Judge shall ordinarily hold his Court at the
same place as the District Judge, but he may hold his Court elsewhere within the District, whenever the
District Judge shall, with the previous sanction of the High Court, direct him so to do.
16. Original jurisdiction of Assistant Judge.—The District Judge may refer to any Assistant Judge
subordinate to him original suits of which the subject-matter does not amount to ten thousand rupees in
amount or value, and miscellaneous applications not being of the nature of appeals. The Assistant Judge
shall have jurisdiction to try such suits and to dispose of such applications. Where the Assistant Judge’s
decrees and orders in such cases are appealable, the appeal shall lie to the District Judge or to the High
Court according as the amount or value of the subject-matter does not exceed or exceeds five thousand
rupees.
The Assistant Judge shall, when directed by the District Judge so to do, also take evidence on
applications for certificates under 2*** Act No. XX of 1864 (for making better provision for the care of
the persons and property of minors in the Presidency of Bombay), and shall forward it with his opinion
thereon for the final orders of the District Judge.
17. Appellate jurisdiction of Assistant Judge.—The Governor of Bombay in Council may, by
notification in the Government Gazette, empower any Assistant Judge to try such appeals from the
decrees and orders of the subordinate Courts as would lie to the District Judge and as may be referred by
him to the Assistant Judge.
1. The second paragraph of s. 14 rep. by Act 12 of 1876, s. 1 and Schedule, Part I (w.e.f. 11-4-1876).
2. Certain words repealed by Act 7 of 1889, s. 2 and the First Schedule (w.e.f. 8-3-1889).
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Decrees and orders passed under this section by an Assistant Judge shall have the same force and
shall be subject to the same rules as regards procedure and appeals as decrees and orders passed by the
District Judge.
18. Continuance of Assistant Judge’s appellate jurisdiction.—A person filling the office of
Assistant Judge, on whom the power of hearing appeals has once been conferred under section seventeen,
shall continue to have this power so long and so often as he may fill the office of Assistant Judge, without
reference to the District in which he may be employed; provided that the Governor of Bombay in Council
may, by notification in the Government Gazette, at any time withdraw such power.
19. Power to invest Assistant Judge with powers of District Judge.—The Governor of Bombay in
Council may, by notification in the Government Gazette, invest an Assistant Judge with all or any of the
powers of a District Judge within a particular part of a District, and may, by like notification, from time to
time determine and alter the limits of such Part.
The jurisdiction of an Assistant Judge so invested shall pro tanto exclude the jurisdiction of the
District Judge from within the said limits.
Every Assistant Judge so invested shall ordinarily hold his Court at such place within the local limits
of his jurisdiction as may be determined by the Governor of Bombay in Council, and may, with the
previous sanction of the High Court, hold it at any other place within such limits.
20. Assistant Judge to use seal of District Judge.—Every Assistant Judge shall use the seal of the
District Judge to whom he is Assistant.