s 54A General power to transfer from Magistrate’s Court to District Court
54A.—(1) Where it appears to a District Court, on the application of a party to any civil proceedings pending in a Magistrate’s Court, that the proceedings, by reason of its involving some important question of law, or being a test case, or for any other sufficient reason, should be tried in the District Court, it may order the proceedings to be transferred to the District Court.
(2) An order under subsection (1) may be made on such terms as the court sees fit.
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