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10. Replacement of section 19 of the principal enactment

Official English translation. The Sinhala text prevails. Open the official Sinhala text, official PDF on documents.gov.lk

Section 19 of the principal enactment is hereby repealed and the following section is substituted therefor: -

19. Every District Court shall be a court of record and shall within its district have unlimited original jurisdiction in all civil, revenue, trust, insolvency and testamentary matters, save and except such of the aforesaid matters as are by or under Chapter VA of this

Act or by virtue of the provisions of any other enactment exclusively assigned by way of original jurisdiction to any other court or vested in any other authority and in the exercise of such jurisdiction to impose fines, penalties and forfeitures and shall, in like manner also have jurisdiction over the persons and estates of persons of unsound mind and wards, over the estates of cestuis que trust and over guardians and trustees and in any other matter in which jurisdiction is given to District Court by law.”.