Hire-Purchase Act, 1946

Jurisdiction of the District Court.

20.—(1) The District Court shall have jurisdiction in any action by the owner of goods let under a hire-purchase agreement to enforce a right to recover possession of the goods from the hirer where the hire-purchase price does not exceed twenty-five pounds.

(2) Paragraph (a) of section 53 of the Courts of Justice Act, 1936 (No. 48 of 1936), shall not apply to an action to which subsection (1) of this section relates.