Section 19: Bills of exchange and promissory notes

19. Bills of exchange and promissory notes (1) Sections 2 to 8 of the Courts (Civil Procedure) Act shall extend to actions before the Intermediate Court or a District Court for the recovery of bills of exchange and promissory notes where the amount claimed is within the jurisdiction of such Court. (2) The forms of procedure contained in the Schedule to the Courts (Civil Procedure) Act shall, mutatis mutandis, be applicable to similar proceedings before the Intermediate Court or a District Court, and all acts, matters and things which under that Act may be done and performed by the Supreme Court or a Judge, may in any similar proceedings before the Intermediate Court or a District Court be done or performed by a Magistrate. (3) Judgments recovered in such cases may be executed as any other judgment of the Intermediate Court or a District Court, and costs in such proceedings when allowed by the Magistrate shall be taxed.