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Section 50, Local Courts Act, 1963
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(1) The Native Courts Act is hereby repealed: [Margin: Repeals and savings. Cap. 8.] Provided that—
(a) all Local Courts and Group Local Appeal Courts in existence immediately before the commencement of this Act shall be in no wise affected by the repeal save as is expressly provided in this Act;
(b) no proceedings before any such Court which were finally terminated before the commencement of this Act shall be re-opened but any judgment, order or sentence made or passed in any such proceeding may be enforced in the same way as if this Act had not come into operation;
(c) all proceedings in any such court commenced under the Native Courts Act which have not been finally completed at the commencement of this Act shall be prosecuted and continued in conformity with this Act as far as consistently may be; [Margin: Cap. 8.]
(d) all Rules and Orders made under the Native Courts Act shall (save in so far as they are inconsistent with the provisions of this Act) be deemed to have been made by the Minister under this Act and shall remain in force until they have been replaced by Rules and Orders made under this Act relating to the same subject-matter or until they have been expressly revoked. [Margin: Cap. 8.]
(2) Subsection (3) of section 29 of the Courts Act is hereby repealed. [Margin: Cap. 7.]
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