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Debts (Summary Recovery) Act, 1913 🇰🇪

Kenya

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REPUBLIC OF KENYA

Debts (Summary Recovery) Act, 1913

Act 5 of 1913

  • Commenced on 26 May 1913
  • [This is the version of this document from 26 May 1913.]
An Act of Parliament to make provision for the summary recovery of civil debts

1. Short title

This Act may be cited as the Debts (Summary Recovery) Act.

2. Recovery of civil debts

Any sum declared by any Act, whether past or future, to be a civil debt recoverable summarily may be recovered in the court of any magistrate of competent jurisdiction in the manner prescribed by this Act.

2A. Jurisdiction of magistrates

(1)A magistrate holding a subordinate court of the first class shall have jurisdiction in any suit or proceeding brought under this Act, and notwithstanding anything contained in the Magistrates’ Courts Act (Cap. 10), the pecuniary jurisdiction of such magistrate in any such suit or proceeding shall be unlimited.
(2)The Chief Justice may, by order in the Gazette, confer on any magistrate holding a subordinate court of the second class power…

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