2. The following section is hereby inserted immediately after section 186 of the Civil Procedure Code, hereinafter referred to as the principal enactment, and shall have effect as section 186a of that Code: -
| 186A. Where a Judge pronounces a judgment written by his predecessor but not pronounced as provided in section 185, such judgment shall, if such predecessor was a judicial officer within the meaning of subsection (5) of section 55 of the Ceylon (Constitution) Order in Council, 1946, at the time such judgment was written, not be deemed to be invalid by reason only of the fact that such predecessor had no jurisdiction to write such judgment.". [16th March, 1964.*]* 16th March, 1964, appointed by Order published in Gazette No. 13,950 of 14th February, 1964. |
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