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Section 37: Transfer of proceeding from Bombay High Court to Gujarat High Court.

The Bombay Reorganisation Act, 1960Central Act · Act 11 of 1960

(1) Except as hereinafter provided, the High Court at Bombay shall, as from the appointed day, have no jurisdiction in respect of the transferred territory.

(2) Such proceedings pending in the High Court of Bombay immediately before the appointed day 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 Gujarat shall, as soon as may be after such certification, be transferred to the High Court of Gujarat.

(3) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-sections (1) and (2) of this section or in section 30, but save as hereinafter provided, the High Court at Bombay shall have, and the High Court of Gujarat shall not have, jurisdiction to entertain, hear or dispose of appeals, applications for leave to appeal 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 of Bombay before the appointed day:

Provided that if after any such proceedings have been entertained by the High Court at Bombay, it appears to the Chief Justice of that High Court that they ought to be transferred to the High Court of Gujarat, 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 of Bombay—

(a) before the appointed day, in any proceedings transferred to the High Court of Gujarat by virtue of sub-section (2), or

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

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

Where this provision sits

ActThe Bombay Reorganisation Act, 1960
Section37
Marginal noteTransfer of proceeding from Bombay High Court to Gujarat High Court.
JurisdictionCentral
StatusIn force as published by the source

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