Clause 17

Sections 2 and 3 shall not apply to any civil cause or matter in a District Court in respect of which a writ of summons or any other originating process is filed before the date of commencement of this Act, and sections 19, 20 and 21 of the principal Act in force immediately before that date shall apply to any such civil cause or matter as if sections 2 and 3 had not been enacted.

Section 14(a), only in so far as it relates to the deletion and substitution of subsection (1) and the insertion of subsection (1A) of section 52 of the principal Act, shall not apply to any civil cause or matter in a Magistrate’s Court in respect of which a writ of summons or any other originating process is filed before the date of commencement of this Act, and section 52(1) of the principal Act in force immediately before that date, only in so far as it provides that a Magistrate’s Court shall have the jurisdiction conferred on a District Court by sections 20(1)(a) and (2) and 21 of the principal Act in force immediately before that date in any proceedings where the amount claimed or the value of the subject-matter in dispute does not exceed the Magistrate’s Court limit, shall apply to any such civil cause or matter as if section 14(a) had not been enacted.