Section 8:
Extension of jurisdiction of, and transfer of proceedings to, High Court at Allahabad.
(1) Except as hereinafter provided—
(a) the jurisdiction of the High Court of Judicature at Allahabad shall, as from the appointed day,
extend to the territories transferred by this Act from the State of Bihar to the State of Uttar Pradesh;
and
(b) the High Court at Patna shall, as from that day, have no jurisdiction in respect of the said
territories.
(2) Such proceedings pending in the High Court at Patna 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 Judicature at Allahabad shall, as soon as may be after such certification, be transferred to the
High Court of Judicature at Allahabad.
(3) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-sections (1) and (2), but save as hereinafter provided,
the High Court at Patna shall have, and the High Court of Judicature at Allahabad 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 that High Court that they ought to be transferred to the High Court of Judicature at
Allahabad, 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 proceedings transferred to the High Court of Judicature at
Allahabad 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 of the High Court at Patna, but also as an order
made by the High Court of Judicature at Allahabad.
(5) Subject to any rule made or direction given by the High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, any
such person who immediately before the appointed day is an advocate entitled to practise in the
High Court at Patna as may be specified in this behalf by the Chief Justice of the High Court of Judicature
at Allahabad having regard to the transfer of territories from the State of Bihar to the State of Uttar
Pradesh, shall be recognised as an advocate entitled to practise in the High Court of Judicature at
Allahabad.