1. Short title. Commencement.—This Act may be called the Presidency Small Cause Courts Act,
1882; and it shall come into force on the first day of July, 1882.
But nothing herein contained shall affect the provisions of the Army Act, 2*** (44 & 45
Vict., c. 58) section 151, or the rights or liabilities of any person under any decree passed
before that day.
2. [Repeal of enactments.]—Rep. by the Repealing Act, 1938 (1 of 1938), s. 2 and
Schedule.
3. [Amendments of Acts.]—Rep. by s. 2 and Schedule, ibid.
4. “Small Cause Court” and “Registrar” defined.—In this Act, “the Small Cause Court”
means the Court of Small Causes constituted under this Act in the town of Calcutta, Madras or Bombay,
as the case may be,
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[and the expression “Registrar” includes a Deputy Registrar].