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Part IV · Trial

24. Small Claims Court may summon any witness or require the production of any document where the parties are at variance

Official English translation. Where it differs from the Sinhala or Tamil text, the Act itself says which text prevails.

(1)

The Small Claims Court, on an application made by any party to the action may permit to call any other witness or witnesses not referred in the pleadings or to produce the documents not annexed to the pleadings in the interest of justice. Further the Small Claims Court may permit the parties to lead further evidence on documents discovered or elicited by way of commissions where it deems necessary.

(2)

The provisions of sections 121 and 175 of the Civil

Procedure Code shall not apply to the proceedings of the

Small Claims Court.

(3)

Notwithstanding any provision in the Evidence

Ordinance (Chapter 14), the provisions of subsections (1), (2), (3) and (4) of section 151A of the Civil Procedure Code shall, mutatis mutandis, apply to examination of a witness on an affidavit, cross examination, re-examination and admissibility and authenticity of any document annexed to such other affidavit in so far as they are not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act.

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