Continuity of proceedings

6. (a) Every suit, appeal, application for revision, proceeding or other business, pending on the date on which this Act comes into force before the Court of the Deputy Commissioner or the Additional Deputy Commissioner of the Khasi and Jaintia Hills District, or of any Assistant to the Deputy Commissioner as aforesaid, or the Commissioner of Divisions or the Governor shall, on the aforesaid date, be transferred or deemed to have been transferred for disposal to the Court which would have been competent to entertain and dispose of such suit, appeal, application for revision, proceeding or business, had this Act been in force on the date of the institution or commencement of the same; and the latter Court shall deal with and dispose of the same in accordance with law.

1. (b) Any application for rehearing, review, execution, amendment of decree or the like and any other petition in respect of a disposed of suit, appeal or other judicial proceeding which could have been filed in the Court of the said Deputy or Additional Deputy Commissioner, or of any Assistant to the Deputy Commissioner, or of the Commissioner or of the Governor but for the passing of this Act shall be filed in the Court to which such suit, appeal or other judicial proceeding would be deemed to have been transferred if it had been pending on the date this Act comes into force.