Section 41:
High Court for the added areas of Mysore.
(1) Except as hereinafter provided—
(a) the jurisdiction of the High Court of Mysore shall, as from the appointed day, extend to
the whole of the transferred territory, and
(b) the High Court at Madras shall, as from that day, have no jurisdiction in respect of the
transferred territory.
(2) Such proceedings pending in the High Court at Madras immediately before the appointed day
as are certified 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 Mysore shall, as soon as may be after such certification, be transferred to the High
Court of Mysore.
(3) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-sections (1) and (2), but save as hereinafter
provided, the High Court at Madras shall have, and the High Court of Mysore shall, not have,
jurisdiction to entertain, hear or dispose of appeals, applications for leave to appeal including 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 Madras before the
appointed day:
Provided that if after any such proceedings have been entertained by the High Court at Madras, it
appears to the Chief Justice of that High Court that they ought to be transferred to the High Court of
Mysore 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 Madras—
(a) before the appointed day in any proceedings transferred to the High Court of Mysore by
virtue of sub-section (2); or
(b) in any proceedings with respect to which the High Court at Madras retains jurisdiction by
virtue of sub-section (3).shall for all purposes have effect, not only as an order of the High Court at Madras, but also as an
order made by the High Court of Mysore.
(5) Any person who immediately before the appointed day is an advocate entitled to practise or an
attorney entitled to act in the High Court at Madras and was authorised to appear or to act in any
proceedings transferred from that High Court to the High Court of Mysore under sub-section (2) or
the proviso to sub-section (3) shall, on such transfer of the proceedings, have the right to appear or to
act, as the case may be, in the High Court of Mysore in relation to those proceedings as an advocate or
an attorney entitled to practise or to act in the High Court of Mysore.