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Primary Courts' Procedure Act (No. 44 of 1979) - Sect 3

Duty of courts in cases within exclusive jurisdiction of Primary Courts

3. Where in any case, whether civil or criminal instituted before a District Court or a Magistrate's Court, it appears to such court at any stage of the proceedings that the case is one within the exclusive jurisdiction of a Primary Court, the court may stop the further progress of the case and refer the parties to such Primary Court, and where such case is a civil case, may also make such order as to costs as may seem just.


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