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| (1) All appellate proceedings pending in the Court of Appeal established under the Court of Appeal Act, in the Court of Criminal Appeal established under the Court of Criminal Appeal Ordinance, and in the Supreme Court established under the Courts Ordinance on the day preceding the appointed date shall stand removed to the Supreme Court, and the Supreme Court shall have jurisdiction to hear and determine the same, and the judgments and orders of the aforesaid courts delivered or made before the appointed date in appellate proceedings shall have the same force and effect as if they had been delivered or made by the Supreme Court. |
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| (2) All original proceedings pending in the Supreme Court established under the Courts Ordinance or in the Colonial Court of Admiralty established under the Ceylon Courts of Admiralty Ordinance on the day preceding the appointed date shall stand removed to the appropriate Court established under this Law, and such Court shall have jurisdiction to hear and determine or to continue and complete the same, and the judgments and orders of the aforesaid courts delivered or made before the appointed date in original proceedings shall have the same force and effect as if they had been delivered or made by the appropriate Court established under this Law. |
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| (3) All actions, proceedings or matters pending in District Courts established under the Courts Ordinance on the day preceding the appointed date shall stand removed to the appropriate Court established under this Law, and such Court shall have juris diction to hear and determine or to continue and complete the same, and the judgments and orders of the aforesaid courts delivered or made before the appointed date shall have the same force and effect as it they had been delivered or made by the appropriate Court established under this Law. |
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| (4) All actions, proceedings or matters pending in Magistrates' Courts established under the Courts Ordinance, Courts of Requests established under the Courts Ordinance and Rural Courts established under the Rural Courts Ordinance on the day preceding the appointed date shall stand removed to the appropriate Magistrate's Court established under this Law, and such Magistrate's Court shall have jurisdiction to hear and determine or to continue and complete the same, and the judgments and orders of the aforesaid courts delivered or made before the appointed date shall have the same force and effect as if they had been delivered or made by a Magistrate's Court established under this Law: |
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| (5) Where by virtue of the provisions of this Law, any area previously forming part of the jurisdiction of any District Court or Magistrate's Court is excluded therefrom, and any action, proceeding or matter in that Court on the day preceding the appointed date ceases to be within the jurisdiction of that Court by reason only of the exclusion of that area, such action, proceeding or matter may, notwithstanding anything in this Law, be heard and determined or continued and completed by that Court as if such area had not been so excluded from the jurisdiction of that District Court or Magistrate's Court, as the case may be. |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts