Act Number: 40

Act Name: The Bihar and West Bengal (Transfer of Territories) Act, 1956

Year: 1956

Enactment Date: 1956-09-01

Long Title: An Act to provide for the transfer of certain territories from Bihar to West Bengal and for matters connected therewith.

Ministry: Ministry of Home Affairs

Department: Department of States

Section 49: Right of pleaders to practise in certain Courts.
    Any person who, immediately before the appointed day, is enrolled as a pleader entitled to practise in any subordinate Courts in the transferred territories shall, for a period of six months from that day, continue to be entitled to practise in those Courts, notwithstanding that the whole or any part of the territories within the jurisdiction of those Courts has been transferred to West Bengal.
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