Section 42
Right to appear or act in proceedings transferred to the common High Court.
The North-Eastern Areas (Reorganisation) Act, 1971
About this Act
An Act to provide for the establishment of the States of Manipur and Tripura and to provide for the formation of the State of Meghalaya and of the Union territories of Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh by reorganisation of the existing State of Assam and for matters connected therewith.
Any person
who, immediately before the appointed day, is an advocate entitled to practise in the High Court of Assam
and Nagaland or in the Court of the Judicial Commissioner for Manipur or in the Court of the Judicial
Commissioner for Tripura and was authorised to appear or to act in any proceedings transferred from the
said High Court or Courts of the Judicial Commissioners to the common High Court under section 40,
shall have the right to appear or to act, as the case may be, in the common High Court in relation to those
proceedings.