62Transfer of proceedings to Mysore High Court

(1) Except as hereinafter provided, neither the High Court of Bombay nor the High Court at Madras shall, as from the appointed day, have jurisdiction in respect of any territory transferred from the existing State of Bombay or the State of Madras, as the case may be, to the new State of Mysore.

(2) Such proceedings pending in the High Court of Hyderabad or the High Court at Bombay or Madras, immediately before the appointed day, as are certified by the Chief Justice of that High Court, having regard to the place of accrual of the cause of action and other circumstances, to be proceedings which ought to be heard and decided by the High Court for the new State of Mysore (referred to in this Act as the High Court of Mysore) shall, as soon as may be after such certification, be transferred to the High Court of Mysore.

(3) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-sections (1) and (2) but save as hereinafter provided, the High Court of Bombay or, as the case may be, the High Court at Madras shall have, and the High Court of Mysore shall not have, jurisdiction to entertain, hear or dispose of appeals, applications for leave to appeal to the Supreme Court, applications for review and other proceedings, where any such proceedings seek any relief in respect of any order passed by the High Court at Bombay or Madras before the appointed day:

Provided that if after any such proceedings have been entertained by the High Court of Bombay or at Madras it appears to the Chief Justice of that High Court that they ought to be transferred to the High Court of Mysore, he shall order that they shall be so transferred and such proceedings shall thereupon be transferred accordingly.

(4) Any order made by the High Court of Hyderabad before the appointed day in any proceedings transferred to the High Court of Mysore by virtue of sub-section (2) shall, for all purposes, have effect not only as an order of the High Court of Hyderabad, but also as an order made by the High Court of Mysore.

(5) Any order made by the High Court at Bombay or Madras—

(a) before the appointed day in any proceedings transferred to the High Court of Mysore by virtue of sub-section (2), or

(b) the said High Court shall be known as the High Court of Bombay or at Madras retains jurisdiction by virtue of sub-section (3),

shall, for all purposes, have effect not only as an order of the High Court of Bombay or at Madras, but also as an order of the High Court of Mysore.

(6) All proceedings pending in the High Court of the existing State of Mysore immediately before the appointed day, shall stand transferred to the High Court of Mysore; and any order made before the appointed day by the first mentioned High Court in any such proceedings shall for all purposes have effect, not only as an order of that High Court, but also as an order of the High Court of Mysore.