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Small Claims Courts’ Procedure Act 2022 · As enacted · Part II · Pleadings and Summons

7. Filing of plaint

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

(1)

Every action shall be instituted in the Small

Claims Court by the plaintiff or his registered attorney on his behalf, presenting or transmitting to the Small Claims

Court by a duly stamped written plaint in the Form No. 1 set out in the Schedule hereto, with the appropriate Small Claims

Court which has jurisdiction to hear and determine the action.

(2)

The plaint shall contain the particulars required to be stated by the provisions of section 40 of the Civil Procedure

Code and the provisions of section 46 of the Civil Procedure

Code shall apply to such plaint filed in the Small Claims

Court.

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