No. 2 The Courts (Amendment) Act 2006No. 2 Courts (Amendment) Act 2006

No. 2 The Courts (Amendment) Act 2006No. 2 Courts (Amendment) Act 2006 Short title. S IGNED this 15th day of March, 2006 ALHAJI AHMAD TEJAN KABBAH, President. LS No. 2 2006 Sierra Leone The Courts (Amendment) Act, 2006. Being an Act to amend the Courts Act, 1965. [23rd March, 2006] E NACTED by the President and Members of Parliament in this present Parliament assembled. Date of commencement. ACT Supplement to the Sierra Leone Gazette Vol. CXXXVII, No. 13 dated 23rd March, 2006 Section 7 of the Courts Act, 1965 is amended by the repeal and replacement of subsection (1) thereof by the following:–

(1) In addition to any civil jurisdictionwhich may be conferred upon Magistrates’ Courts by any other enactment, every such Court shall have jurisdiction to hear and determine any cause or matter other than an action founded upon libel, slander, false imprisonment, malicious prosecution, seduction or breach of promise of marriage which may be lawfully brought before it and wherein the claim, debt, duty or matter in dispute does not exceed five million leones in value whether on balance of account or otherwise”. “Civil jurisdiction. Amendment of section 7 of Act No. 31 of 1965. P RINTED AND PUBLISHED BY THE G OVERNMENT P RINTING D EPARTMENT , S IERRA LEONE . GAZETTE NO . 13 OF 23 RD M ARCH , 2006. Passed in Parliament this 9th day of February, in the year of our Lord two thousand and six. J. A. CARPENTER, Clerk of Parliament. T HIS P RINTED IMPRESSION has been carefully compared by me with the Bill which has passed Parliament and found by me to be a true and correct printed copy of the said Bill. J. A. CARPENTER, Clerk of Parliament.