Section 13. Power to fix

13. Power to fix local limits of jurisdiction of Courts. - (1) The State Government may, by notification in the official Gazette, fix and alter the local limits of the jurisdiction of any Civil Court under this Act. - (2) If the same local jurisdiction is assigned to two or more Civil Judge (Senior Division) or to two or more Civil Judge (Junior Division)s, the Principal District Judge may assign to each of them such civil business cognizable by the Civil Judge (Senior Division) or Civil Judge (Junior Division) as the case may be, as subject to any general or special order of the High Court, he thinks fit. - (3) When civil business arising in any local area is assigned by the Principal District Judge under subSection (2), to one of two or more Civil Judge (Senior Division) or to one of two or more Civil Judge (Junior Division), a decree or order passed by the Civil Judge (Senior Division) or Civil Judge (Junior Division) shall not be invalid by reason only of the case in which it was made having arisen wholly or in part in a place - beyond the local area if that place is within the local limits fixed by the (State) Government under subSection (1). - (4) A Judge of a Court of Small Causes appointed be also Civil Judge (Senior Division) or Civil Judge (Junior Division) is a Civil Judge (Senior Division) or Civil Judge (Junior Division), as the case may be, within the meaning of this section. - (5) The present local limits of the jurisdiction of every Civil Court under this Act shall be deemed to have been fixed under this section. 14. Place of sitting of Courts. - (1) The State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, fix or alter the place or places, at which any Civil Court under this Act is to be held. - (2) All places at which any such courts are now held shall be deemed to have been fixed under this section. 15. Vacations of Courts. - (1) Subject to such orders as may be made by the State Government the High Court shall prepare a list of days to be observed in each year as close holidays in the Civil Courts. - (2) The list shall be published in the official Gazette. - (3) A judicial act done by a Civil Court on a day specified in the list shall not be invalid by reason only of its having been done on that day. 16. Seal of Court. Every Civil courts under this Act shall use a seal of such form and dimensions as are prescribed by the (State) Government.