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Section 40: Transfer of proceedings from Hyderabad High Court to Andhra Pradesh High Court.

The Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2014Central Act · Act 6 of 2014

(1) Except as hereinafter provided, the High Court at Hyderabad shall, as from the date referred to in subsection (1) of section 30, have no jurisdiction in respect of the State of Andhra Pradesh.

(2) Such proceedings pending in the High Court at Hyderabad immediately before the date referred to in sub-section (1) of section 30 as are certified, whether before or after that day, by the Chief Justice of that High Court, having regard to the place of accrual of the cause of action and other circumstances, to be proceedings which ought to be heard and decided by the High Court of Andhra Pradesh shall, as soon as may be after such certification, be transferred to the High Court of Andhra Pradesh.

(3) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-sections (1) and (2) of this section or in section 33, but save as hereinafter provided, the High Court at Hyderabad shall have, and the High Court of Andhra Pradesh shall not have, jurisdiction to entertain, hear or dispose of appeals, applications for leave to the Supreme Court, applications for review and other proceedings where any such proceedings seek any relief in respect of any order passed by the High Court at Hyderabad before the date referred to in sub-section (1) of section 30:

Provided that if after any such proceedings have been entertained by the High Court at Hyderabad, it appears to the Chief Justice of that High Court that they ought to be transferred to the High Court of Andhra Pradesh, he shall order that they shall be so transferred, and such proceedings shall thereupon be transferred accordingly.

(4) Any order made by the High Court at Hyderabad––

(a) before the date referred to in sub-section (1) of section 30, in any proceedings transferred to the High Court of Andhra Pradesh by virtue of sub-section (2), or

(b) in any proceedings with respect to which the High Court at Hyderabad retains jurisdiction by virtue of sub-section (3),

shall for all purposes have effect, not only as an order of the High Court at Hyderabad, but also as an order made by the High Court of Andhra Pradesh.

Where this provision sits

ActThe Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2014
Section40
Marginal noteTransfer of proceedings from Hyderabad High Court to Andhra Pradesh High Court.
JurisdictionCentral
StatusIn force as published by the source
Judgments citing it1

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