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Chapter 2
Miscellaneous amendments of Act of 1996 in relation to courts
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Amendment of section 2 of Act of 1996
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84. Section 2 of the Act of 1996 is amended in subsection (1)—
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(a) by the deletion of the definition of “the Court”,
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(b) in the definition of “prescribed”, by the substitution of “the appropriate court” for “the Court”, and
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(c) by the insertion of the following definition:
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“ ‘appropriate court’ means—
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(a) the District Court, where the damages or the value of the other relief sought in any action to which the application relates is not liable to exceed such sum as stands specified by an enactment to be the jurisdiction of the District Court for actions in contract or tort,
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(b) the Circuit Court, where the damages or the value of the other relief sought in any action to which the application relates is not liable to exceed such sum as stands specified by an enactment to be the jurisdiction of the Circuit Court for actions in contract or tort, and
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(c) in any other case, the High Court;”.
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