State Act

THE UNITED PROVINCES PANCHAYAT RAJ ACT, 1947

This Act was repealed on a date we do not have by the Uttarakhand Panchayati Raj Act, 2016 (Uttarakhand Act 11 of 2016), s.194(1); it may still apply to matters that began before then.

[64- (1) Subject to the provisions of section 66 a Nyaya Panchayat may take cognizance of any civil case of the following description of its value does not exceed one hundred rupees-- (a) a civil case for money due on contract, other than a contract in respect of immovable property; (b) a civil case for the recovery of movable property or for the value thereof; (c) a civil case for compensation for wrongfully taking or injury a movable property; and (d) a civil case for damages caused by cattle trespass. (2) The State Government, may by notification in the official Gazette, direct that the jurisdiction of any Nyaya Panchayat shall extend to all such civil cases of the value not exceeding five hundred rupees.]1