Power to distribute business

(1) The [High Court] may by general or special order authorise any Subordinate Judge to take cognizance of, or any District Judge to transfer to a Subordinate Judge under his control, any of the proceedings next hereinafter mentioned or any class of those proceedings specified in such order. (2) The proceedings referred to in sub-section (1) are the following, namely:-(a) Proceedings under the Indian Succession Act, 1865 and the Probate and Administration Act, 1881 which cannot be disposed of by the District Judge. (b) [Clause (b) repealed]. (3) The District Judge may withdraw any such proceedings taken cognizance of by or transferred to a Subordinate Judge and may either himself dispose of them or transfer them to a Court under his control competent to dispose of them. (4) Proceedings taken cognizance of by or transferred to a Subordinate Judge as the case may be under this section shall be disposed of by him, subject to the rules applicable to like proceedings when disposed of by the District Judge.