Clause 15

Section 4(a) shall not apply to any decision of a District Court or Magistrate’s Court in any suit or action for the recovery of immovable property or in any civil cause or matter made before the date of commencement of this Act, and section 21(1) of the principal Act in force immediately before that date shall apply to any such decision as if section 4(a) had not been enacted.

Sections 4(b) and 14, only in so far as they relate to the insertion of the new section 21(2B) of and the new Third Schedule to the principal Act, shall not apply to any order made by a District Court or Magistrate’s Court that is specified in that Schedule, if that order is made before the date of commencement of this Act.

Section 7 and section 9(a), only in so far as it relates to the deletion of section 34(1)(c) of the principal Act, shall not apply to any interlocutory order in chambers made by a Judge before the date of commencement of this Act, and section 34(1)(c) of the principal Act in force immediately before that date shall apply to any such order as if sections 7 and 9(a) had not been enacted.

Sections 9(a) and 14, only in so far as they relate to the deletion and substitution of section 34(1)(a) of, the deletion of section 34(1)(b) of and the insertion of the new Fourth Schedule to the principal Act, shall not apply to any order made by a Judge that is specified in that Schedule, if that order is made before the date of commencement of this Act, and section 34(1)(a) and (b) of the principal Act in force immediately before that date shall apply to any order referred to therein as if sections 9(a) and 14 had not been enacted.

Section 9(b) shall not apply to any application made before the date of commencement of this Act for the leave of the Court of Appeal under section 34(2) of the principal Act in force immediately before that date, and section 34(2) of the principal Act in force immediately before that date shall apply to any such application as if section 9(b) had not been enacted.

Section 9(c) shall not apply to any decision of the High Court in any civil cause or matter made before the date of commencement of this Act, and section 34(2)(a) of the principal Act in force immediately before that date shall apply to any such decision as if section 9(c) had not been enacted.

Section 9(d) and section 14, only in so far as it relates to the insertion of the new Fifth Schedule to the principal Act, shall not apply to any order made by a Judge that is specified in that Schedule, if that order is made before the date of commencement of this Act, and section 34(2)(d) of the principal Act in force immediately before that date shall apply to any order referred to therein as if sections 9(d) and 14 had not been enacted.

Section 9(e), only in so far as it relates to the insertion of the new section 34(2B) of the principal Act, shall not apply to any application made before the date of commencement of this Act for the leave of the Court of Appeal under section 34(2) of the principal Act in force immediately before that date, and section 34(2) of the principal Act in force immediately before that date shall apply to any such application as if section 9(e), only in so far as it relates to the insertion of the new section 34(2B) of the principal Act, had not been enacted.