(ii) one hundred million dollars, in the case of a community court; or (c) to determine the validity, effect or interpretation of any will; or (d) to dissolve any marriage: Provided that a community court may adjudicate upon marital relationships which, though recognized by customary law, have not been solemnized in terms of the Customary Marriages Act [Chapter 5:07]; or (e) to determine the custody or guardianship of minors; or (f) to determine the liability of any person to maintain another; or (g) to determine rights in respect of land or other immovable property. (2) The Minister may, by statutory instrument, amend paragraph (b) of subsection (1) so as to alter the monetary limits of jurisdiction of local courts and, in so doing, may prescribe different amounts in respect of different classes of case: Provided that no such amendment shall have effect in relation to any case instituted in the local court concerned before the date of commencement of the statutory instrument. 17 Orders that may be made by local courts Subject to this Act and any other enactment, a local court may, in any case— (a) order the payment of damages or compensation; (b) order the specific performance of a contract; (d) order the payment of penal damages where customary law so permits or requires; (e) make such order as to costs as may be just; (f) make any other order which the justice of the case may require; and may make any combination of such orders. 18 Enforcement of judgments of local courts (1) Where a judgment of a local court is not satisfied within the period specified by the court, the judgment creditor may request the clerk of the local court to issue a writ of execution against the property of the judgment debtor. (2) The judgment creditor may, on payment of the prescribed messenger’s fees, require the messenger of a local court to serve and enforce the writ of execution issued in terms of subsection (1), and in such event the procedure for attachment and sale in execution which applies in the Magistrates courts, including the provisions relating to the exemption of property from execution, shall apply, mutatis mutandis, in relation to the attachment and sale of property in execution of the writ of execution. (3) No writ of execution issued in terms of subsection (1) shall be executed pending the final determination of any appeal which has been lodged against the judgment concerned. (4) No judgment shall be enforced in terms of subsection (1) more than two years after the judgment was pronounced, unless the judgment has been revived in terms of subsection (5). (5) A judgment of a local court may be revived either by the local court in which it was pronounced or by any other local court having jurisdiction in respect of the judgment debtor. [Section as substituted by Act 4 of 2003] PART V P ROCEDURE IN LOCAL COURTS 19 Summoning of witnesses, parties, etc. (1) Subject to this Act, every local court shall have the power to summon before it any person who is— (a) the defendant in a case before that court; or (b) required to give evidence before that court. (2) If a person summoned in terms of paragraph (b) of subsection (1) fails to appear or to remain in attendance until excused by the local court, and the court is satisfied, upon the production by any person of a document purporting to be a certificate signed by the person required to serve the summons or upon any other evidence, that the person concerned was duly summoned, the court may, if no sufficient cause for the default appears to exist, order the arrest of the defaulter. (3) Where an order is made by a local court in terms of subsection (2) the person whose arrest has been o rdered shall be arrested and brought forthwith before that court— (a) by the messenger of that court; or (b) if the messenger of that court is unable to arrest that person, and if the order is in writing and endorsed by a magistrate, by a messenger of the magistrates court or a police officer to whom it is transmitted. (4) After hearing a person who has been brought before it in terms of subsection (3) the local court may summarily impose upon him a fine not exceeding level one.

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