Act Number: 30

Act Name: The Bihar Reorganisation Act, 2000

Year: 2000

Enactment Date: 2000-08-25

Long Title: An Act to provide for the reorganisation of the existing State of Bihar and for matters connected therewith.

Ministry: Ministry of Home Affairs

Department: Department of States

Section 34: Transfer to proceedings from High Court at Patna to High Court of Jharkhand.
    (1) Except as hereinafter provided, the High Court at Patna shall, as from the appointed day, have no jurisdiction in respect of the transferred territory.
     (2) Such proceedings pending in the High Court at Patna immediately before the appointed day as are certified, whether before or after that day, by the Chief Justice of the High Court, having regard to the places of accrual of the cause of action and both other circumstances, to be proceedings which are ought to be heard and decided by the High Court of Jharkhand shall as soon as may be after such certification, be transferred to the High Court of Jharkhand.
     (3) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-sections (1) and (2) of this section or in section 27, but save as hereinafter provided, the High Court at Patna shall have, and the High Court of Jharkhand 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 at Patna before the appointed day:
     Provided that if after such proceedings have been entertained by the High Court at Patna, it appears to the Chief Justice of the High Court that they ought to be transferred to the High Court of Jharkhand, 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 Patna—
         (a) before the appointed day, in any proceeding to the High Court of Jharkhand by virtue of sub-section (2), or
         (b) in any proceedings with respect to which the High Court at Patna retains jurisdiction by virtue of sub-section (3) shall for all purposes have effect, not only as an order or the High Court at Patna, but also as an order made by the High Court of Jharkhand.
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