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Acts & Ordinances SMALL CLAIMS COURTS PROCEDURE ACT Marginal Notes 1. Short title and date of operation 2. Institution of actions 3. Cause of action in a Small Claims Court 4. Abandonment of portions of the claim 5. Where a plaint is presented to a wrong court 6. Pleadings 7. Filing of plaint 8. Affidavit and exhibits to be attached to a plaint 9. Issue and service of summons 10. Judgment against the defendant, if he admits the claim of the plaintiff 11. Answer and requisites of answer 12. Affidavit and exhibits to be attached to the answer 13. Replication 14. Where the claim in reconvention is beyond monetary jurisdiction of the Small Claims Court 15. Service of answer and replication together with affidavits and documents 16. Amendment of pleadings 17. Where a party to the action requests for commissions, reports, certified copies and discovery of documents 18. Discovery, production, inspection, protection or admittance of the genuineness of documents 19. Interrogatories 20. Documents discovered during the proceedings to be produced together with affidavit 21. Settlements 22. If no settlement, case to be fixed for trial 23. Trial 24. Small Claims Court may summon any witness or require the production of any document where the parties are at variance 25. Proof of documents unnecessary unless it is impeached 26. Judgment and decree 27. Expeditious disposal of proceedings 28. Default of parties 29. Appeal and stay of execution pending appeal 30. Evidence Ordinance to apply to proceedings 31. Casus omissus 32. A special roll 33. Transitional Provisions 34. Interpretation 35. Sinhala text to prevail in case of inconsistency