The State Peace and Development Council
The Law Amending the Code of Civil Procedure
(The State Peace and Development Council Law No. 6/2000)
The 12th Waxing Day of Waso,1 362 M.E.
(12th July,2000)

The State Peace and Development Council hereby enacts the following Law: -

1. This Law shall be called the Law Amending the Code of Civil Procedure.

2. After the expression "The High Court" contained in sub-section (1) of section 24 of the Code of Civil Procedure the expression "or the State or Divisional Court" shall be inserted.

3. The expression "one thousand kyats" contained in sub-section(2) of section 35 A of the Code of Civil Procedure shall be substituted by the expression "kyats 100,000."

4. Section 56 of the Code of Civil Procedure shall be deleted.

5. In sub-section(1)of section 100 of the Code of Civil Procedure; -

(a) the expression "any Court subordinate to the High Court" shall be substituted by the expression "the State or Divisional Court".

(b) the expression "in a suit relating to immovable property or to any right or interest in immovable property, and in any other suit where the amount or value of the subject-matter of the original suit exceeds kyats 500,"shall be substituted by the expression "in the suit where the amount or value of the subject-matter of the original suit exceeds kyats 2,000,000."

6. Section 102 of the Code of Civil Procedure shall be substituted as follows:

"102. No second appeal shall lie from the decree passed in appeal where the amount or value of the subject-matter of the original suit does not exceed kyats 2,000,000."

7. The expression "where such order is made by a Court (not being the High Court) in the exercise of appellate jurisdiction, then to the High Court" contained in section 106 of the Code of Civil Procedure shall be substituted by the expression "where such order is made by the District Court or the State or Divisional Court in the exercise of appellate jurisdiction ,then to the immediate higher Court."

8. (a) After every expression ‘The High Court" contained in section 115 of the Code of Civil Procedure the expression "or the State or Divisional Court or the District Court" shall be inserted.

(b) In section 115 of the Code of Civil Procedure the following proviso shall be inserted: -

"Provided that this provision shall not apply to the record of any case which has been decided by any Court in the exercise of its revisional jurisdiction or its appellate jurisdiction."

9. After the expression "The evidence of the witnesses in attendance" contained in Order XVIII ,Rule 4 of the Code of Civil Procedure the expression "which the Judge thinks necessary" shall be inserted.

10. The expression "The Judge shall ,if necessary, correct the deposition and sign it" contained in Order XVIII, Rule 5 of the Code of Civil Procedure shall be substituted by the expression "The evidence so taken shall be read over to the witness, and, if he admits it to be correct, shall be signed by him on every page, and the Judge shall, if necessary correct the same and sign it."

11. The expression "may proceed" contained in Order XVIII, Rule 15(1) of the Code of Civil Procedure shall be substituted by the expression "shall proceed".

12. Every expression "kyats 100 "contained in Order XXXIII, Rule I of the Code of Civil Procedure shall be substituted by the expression "kyats 50,000".

Sd./ Than Shwe
Senior General
Chairman
The State Peace and Development Council