This Act may be called the Presidency Small Cause Courts Act, 1882; and it shall come into force on the first day of July, 1882.

But nothing herein contained shall affect the provisions of the Army Act, ¹ *** (44 & 45 Vict., c. 58) section 151, or the rights or liabilities of any person under any decree passed before that day.

1. The figures "1881" rep. by Act 12 of 1891, s. 2 and the First Schedule.