Procedure & effect
Save as provided in sections 24, 38 to 41, 75, clauses (a), (b)
and (c), 76,1[77, 157 and 158,] and by the Presidency Small Cause Courts Act, 1882 (15 of 1882), the
provisions in the body of this Code shall not extend to any suit or proceeding in any Court of Small
Causes established in the towns of Calcutta, Madras and Bombay :
2[Provided that--
1) the High Courts of Judicature at Fort William, Madras and Bombay, as the case may be, may
from time to time, by notification in the Official Gazette, direct3
that any such provisions not
inconsistent with the express provisions of the Presidency Small Cause Courts Act, 1882 (15 of 1882),
and with such modifications and adaptations as may be specified in the notification, shall extend to suits
or proceedings or any class of suits or proceedings in such Court.
(2) All rules heretofore made by any of the said High Courts under section 9 of the Presidency
Small Cause Courts Act, 1882 (15 of 1882) shall be deemed to have been validly made. ]