Court of the Judicial Commissioner for the new State

As from the commencement of this Act,— (a) the Courts of the Judicial Commissioner for the existing States (hereafter in this Part referred to as “the existing Courts”) shall be amalgamated and shall constitute the Court of the Judicial Commissioner for the new State (hereafter in this Part referred to as “the new Court”); (b) the Judicial Commissioner and the Additional Judicial Commissioner, if any, for the existing State of Himachal Pradesh shall be respectively the Judicial Commissioner and the Additional Judicial Commissioner for the new State; (c) every person who immediately before the commencement of this Act, is an officer or servant of either of the existing Courts shall be an officer or servant, as the case may be, of the new Court deemed to have been appointed on the same terms and conditions of service (or on terms and conditions as similar thereto as the changes effected by this Act permit) as were applicable to him immediately before such commencement: Provided that nothing in this clause shall be deemed to prevent the new Court from altering the designation or the duties of any office or post; (d) the new Court shall have all such original, appellate and other jurisdiction as under any law is exercisable immediately before the commencement of this Act by either of the existing Courts in respect of any area forming part of the new State; (e) the new Court shall have the same powers to admit, suspend and remove advocates, vakils and pleaders and to make rules with respect to advocates, vakils and pleaders in the whole of the new State as are immediately before the commencement of this Act, exercisable by either of the existing Courts: Provided that subject to any rules made by the new Court in exercise of the powers conferred by this clause, any person who immediately before the commencement of this Act is an advocate, vakil or pleader entitled to practise in either of the existing Courts shall be recognised as an advocate, vakil or pleader entitled to practise in the new Court; (f) subject to the provisions of this Part, the law in force immediately before the commencement of this Act with respect to the practice and procedure in the Court of the Judicial Commissioner for the existing State of Himachal Pradesh shall, until varied or altered by a competent authority, apply in relation to the new Court with such modifications as may be made by that Court; (g) the Judicial Commissioners’ Courts (Declaration as High Courts) Act, 1950 (15 of 1950) shall apply to the new Court as if the new Court were in existence at the commencement of that Act; and any other law in force immediately before the commencement of this Act relating to appeals to the Supreme Court from the Court of the Judicial Commissioner for the existing State of Himachal Pradesh shall, with necessary modifications, apply in relation to the new Court; (h) all proceedings which immediately before the commencement of this Act are pending in either of the existing Courts shall by virtue of this Act stand transferred to the new Court and shall be continued as if they had been proceedings instituted in that Court; (i) any order made by either of the existing Courts in any such proceedings as aforesaid shall for all purposes have effect, not only as an order of that Court, but also as an order made by the new Court; (j) references in any law to either of the existing Courts by whatever name, shall, unless the context otherwise requires, be construed as references to the new Court.