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Subordinate Courts Act (Cap. 28).

Pays/Territoire
Zambie
Type du document
Législation
Date
1933 (1995)
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Source d'origine
The Laws of Zambia.
Titre complet
An Act to provide for the constitution, jurisdiction and procedure of Subordinate Courts; to provide for appeals from such courts to the High Court; and to provide for matters incidental to or connected with the foregoing.
Sujet
Agriculture et développement rural, Terre et sols
Mot clé
Accès-à-la-justice Cour/tribunaux Procédures judiciaires/procédures administratives Gouvernance Infractions/sanctions Droits traditionnels/droits coutumiers
Aire géographique
Afrique, Afrique Orientale, Nations en développement sans littoral, Pays les moins avances
Résumé

This Act provides for the establishment of subordinate courts to the High Court in each District, and provides with respect to the jurisdiction, proceedings and administration of such courts. There shall be three classes of subordinate courts for each District. Subordinate courts may transfer proceedings at any stage to a Local Court. In civil causes and matters a Subordinate Court of the first class shall, subject to this Act and in addition to any jurisdiction which it may have under any other written law, within the territorial limits of its jurisdiction, have jurisdiction to hear and determine any action for the recovery of land where either the value of the land in question or the rent payable in respect thereof does not exceed the sum of five million kwacha by the year, or, in the case of a Subordinate Court presided over by a principal resident magistrate or a senior resident magistrate, six million kwacha by the year. Service out of Zambia may be allowed by the court whenever the whole or any part of the subject-matter of the suit is land or stock or other property situate within its jurisdiction, or any act, deed or thing affecting such land, stock or property. Nothing in this Act shall deprive a Subordinate Court of the right to observe and to enforce the observance of, or shall deprive any person of the benefit of, any African customary law, such African customary law not being repugnant to justice, equity or good conscience, or incompatible, either in terms or by necessary implication, with any written law for the time being in force in Zambia.

Texte intégral
Anglais
Site web
www.parliament.gov.zm

Références - Législation

Amendé par

Subordinate Courts (Amendment) Act (No. 4 of 2018).

Législation | Zambie | 2018

Mot clé: Accès-à-la-justice, Cour/tribunaux, Procédures judiciaires/procédures administratives

Source: FAO, FAOLEX