| 1.
| | This Act may be cited as the Judicature Act. |
| 2.
| | The Courts of First Instance. |
| 3.
| | Division of Sri Lanka for judicial purposes. |
| 4.
| | Composition of the High Court |
| 5.
| | District Courts, Family Courts, Magistrates' Courts, and Primary Courts. |
| 6.
| | Appointment retirement of Judges. |
| 7.
| | Salaries of the Judges of the High Court. |
| 8.
| | Appointment of additional Judges, &c. |
| 9.
| | Criminal jurisdiction. |
| 10.
| | Sentence. |
| 11.
| | Trial by jury and other trials |
| 12.
| | Trials at Bar. |
| 13.
| | Admiralty jurisdiction. |
| 14.
| | Right of appeal in criminal cases. |
| 15.
| | Right of the Attorney- General to appeal in criminal cases. |
| 16.
| | Right of party aggrieved to appeal in criminal cases. |
| 17.
| | Sittings of the High Court. |
| 18.
| | Contempt of High Court. |
| 19.
| | Jurisdiction of District Courts. |
| 20.
| | Custody of persons and estates of idiots, persons of unsound mind,& c. |
| 21.
| | Testamentary Jurisdiction. |
| 22.
| | Transfer of Testimentary cases. |
| 23.
| | Appeals. [2, 37 of 1979.] |
| 24.
| | Jurisdication of Family Courts. |
| 25.
| | Care of minors, and charge of their property. |
| 26.
| | Family Counsellor. |
| 27.
| | Appeals. |
| 28.
| | Transfer of cases from one Family Court to another and consolidation. |
| 29.
| | Procedure in Family Courts.[4,37 of 1979.] |
| 30.
| | Powers and jurisdiction. |
| 31.
| | Right of appeal. |
| 32.
| | Civil jurisdiction. |
| 33.
| | Criminal jurisdiction. |
| 34.
| | Duty to conciliate disputes. |
| 35.
| | Appeals. |
| 36.
| | Procedure in Primary Courts. |
| 37.
| | Right of appeal to the Supreme Court. |
| 38.
| | Courts of First Instance to execute judgments &c in appeal. |
| 39.
| | Objection to jurisdiction. |
| 40.
| | Attorneys at-law. |
| 41.
| | Right of representation. |
| 42.
| | Refusal to admit, suspension and removal of attorney-at-law. |
| 43.
| | Inquiry by disciplinary committee into alleged misconduct of attorney-at-law. |
| 44.
| | Disciplinary Committees. |
| 45.
| | Justices of the Peace and Unofficial Magistrates. |
| 46.
| | Transfer of cases. |
| 47.
| | Power of Attorney-General to decide court or place at which inquiry or trial should be held. |
| 48.
| | Provision for continuing any case begun before a Judge becoming disabled. |
| 49.
| | Provisions for hearing of cases where Judge is a party. |
| 50.
| | Conviction or acquittal no bar to any civil action. |
| 51.
| | In what court offences declared punishable by fines or imprisonment generally may be tried. |
| 52.
| | Registrar and other officers of Courts of First instance. |
| 53.
| | Ministerial acts in absence of officers. |
| 54.
| | Injunctions. |
| 55.
| | Contempt proceedings. |
| 56.
| | Transitional provisions. |
| 57.
| | Where Judge of a Primary Court is not appointed |
| 58.
| | Operation of the territorial limits and the jurisdiction of court. |
| 59.
| | Court to make appropriate orders in certain matters. |
| 60.
| | Nomination of courts for special categories of cases. |
| 61.
| | Regulations. |
| 63.
| | Interpretation. |
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