Transfer of pending and disposed of cases and applications

(1) Any suit or case or other proceeding which was transferred by any civil court and decided by the Tribunal or is pending on the date of commencement of this Act, before the Tribunal shall stand transferred back to the same civil court from which it was transferred and in case such court is not in existence then to the court of competent jurisdiction in its place and such court shall proceed to dispose of the same as if it was a plaint under the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (5 of 1908).

1. (2) Every proceeding which was transferred by the High Court to the Tribunal and decided by the Tribunal or is pending on the date of commencement of this Act, before the Tribunal shall stand transferred back to the High Court.
2. (3) Every proceeding of a case which was filed as an original application in the Tribunal and decided by the Tribunal or is pending on the date of commencement of this Act, before the said Tribunal shall stand transferred to the High Court.
3. (4) Where any case or proceeding stands transferred from the Tribunal to the High Court or civil court under sub-section (1), (2) or (3), -
   • (a) the records of such cases or proceedings shall be forwarded to the High Court or the concerned civil court, as the case may be; and
   • (b) the High Court or the civil court, as the case may be, on receipt of such record, proceed to deal with the case from the stage which was reached before such transfer or from any earlier stage as the High Court or the civil court may deem fit.
4. (5) Every proceeding relating to contempt, execution or review of final order or interim order pending before the Tribunal on the date of commencement of this Act, shall stand transferred to the High Court or the civil court, as the case may be.