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PART II · CHAPTER II APPELLATE AND REVISIONAL JURISDICTION IN CIVIL CASES

Section 21-A: Powers of the Chief Justice to transfer pending suits, appeals or proceedings to Subordinate Civil Courts

The Himachal Pradesh Courts Act, 1976

How current this text is

Text as published by the Law Department, Government of Himachal Pradesh, with amendments up to H.P. Act No. 19 of 2022.

1[The Chief Justice of the High Court of Himachal Pradesh may transfer any suit, appeal or proceedings which is or are pending before the High Court of Himachal Pradesh immediately before the commencement of the Himachal Pradesh Courts (Amendment) Act, 1994 to such a Subordinate Civil Court in Himachal Pradesh which would have jurisdiction to entertain such suit, appeal or proceedings, had such suit, appeal or proceedings been instituted or filed for the first time after such commencement.]

Footnotes in the official text

  1. 1.Section 21-A added vide H.P. Act No. 10 of 1980, effective from 5th July, 1980 and subsequently renumbered as sub-section (1) and new sub-section (2) inserted vide H.P. Act 16 of 1984 and further section 21-A substituted vide H.P. Act No. 1 of 1995.