Section 6. For sections 70 and 71 of the Punjab Courts Act, 1884, the following sections shall be substituted, namely:

6. For sections 70 and 71 of the Punjab Courts Act, 1884, the following sections shall be substituted, namely:— "70. (1) The Chief Court may call for the record of any case in which no appeal lies to it, and may pass such order in the case as it thinks fit,— (a) if the Court, by which the case was decided, appears to have exercised a jurisdiction not vested in it by law, or to have failed to exercise a jurisdiction so vested, or to have acted in the exercise of its jurisdiction with material irregularity; or (b) if, 1899.] Punjab Courts. 175 (b) if, on application made to it, the Chief Court is of opinion that there is an important question of law or custom involved and that such question requires further consideration: "Provided as follows— (i) no application under clause (b) shall be admitted after the expiration of ninety days from the date of the order in respect of which the application is made, unless the applicant satisfies the Chief Court that he had sufficient cause for not making the application within that period: (ii) no such application shall be admitted in a small cause under the value of one-thousand rupees or in an unclassed suit under the value of two-hundred rupees: (iii) on any such application the Chief Court shall not revise the decision of the Court below except in so far as such decision involves the question of law or custom in respect of which the application has been admitted: and (iv) when any such application has been admitted, the Chief Court shall, subject to the last foregoing proviso, treat the matter of the application as if it were an appeal. "Explanation.—A question of procedure is not a question of law or custom within the meaning of clause (b). "(2) In computing the period of limitation aforesaid, the provisions of the Indian Limitation Act, 1877, shall be deemed to apply. "(3) Section 622 of the Code of Civil Procedure, in so far as it applies to the territories to which this Act extends, is hereby repealed. "71. If 176 Punjab Courts. [ACT XXV, 1899.] Amendment of the first schedule, Act VII, 1870. "71. In the first schedule to the Court-fees Act, 1870, after No. 12, the following shall be inserted, VII of namely:— | '13. Application to the Chief Court in the Punjab for the exercise of its jurisdiction under section 70 of the Punjab Courts Act, 1884, as amended by the Punjab Courts Act, 1899. | When the amount or value of the subject-matter in dispute does not exceed twenty-five rupees. | Two rupees. | | --- | --- | --- | | | When such amount or value exceeds twenty-five rupees. | The fee leviable on a memorandum of appeal." | Amendment of section 72, Act XVIII, 1884.