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CAP. 336]

District Court

[1984 Ed.

(Cap. 300.)

Division of causes of action.

Infancy no defence.

Venue.

General ancillary jurisdiction.

(a) any party may lodge with the Registrar of the Supreme Court the order and the writ or other process or copies thereof and such other documents, if any, as the Registrar of the Supreme Court may direct; and

(b) the Registrar of the Supreme Court shall, on the applica- tion of that party and on production of the order and the filing of a copy thereof, send to the Registrar of the Court all pleadings, affidavits and other documents filed in the High Court relating to the action, counterclaim or matter.

(2) On such documents being so lodged or sent, the action and counterclaim if any, or the counterclaim or matter, shall be trans- ferred to the Court and, subject as may be prescribed, all further proceedings therein shall be taken and tried, as if the action, counterclaim or matter had been originally commenced in that Court and that Court shall have jurisdiction to deal therewith notwithstanding any enactment to the contrary:

Provided that the transfer shall not affect any right of appeal in the High Court or to the Court of Appeal from the order directing the transfer, or the right to enforce in the High Court any judgment signed or order made in that court before the transfer.

(3) Nothing in the provisions of section 38, 39, 40 or 41 shall derogate from the provisions of section 15 of the Crown Proceedings Ordinance.

(4) This section shall apply mutatis mutandis when any action, counterclaim or matter is ordered to be transferred from the Court to the High Court. (Added, 103 of 1970, s. 4}

(22 of 1962, s. 15, incorporated)

45. No cause of action shall be split or divided so as to be made the ground of 2 or more different actions for the purpose of bringing 2 or more actions in the Court.

(22 of 1962, s. 16, incorporated)

46. No person shall by reason of his not having attained the full age of 21 years be exempted from liability for any debt, damages. or demand within the jurisdiction of the Court or which is brought -within-the-jurisdiction of the Court-by-abandoning the excess withi: h.

the meaning-of-section-34.

(22 of 1962, s. 17, incorporated (*

47. No judgment, order or proceedings whatsoever shall be liable to be set aside on account of any defect in venue.

(22 of 1962, s. 18, incorporated)

Exercise of Jurisdiction and Ancillary Jurisdiction

48. (1) The Court, as regards any cause for the time being within its jurisdiction, shall in any proceedings before it--