65High Court of Andhra Pradesh

(1) As from the appointed day,―

(a) the jurisdiction of the High Court of the existing State of Andhra shall extend to the whole of the territories transferred to that State from the existing State of Hyderabad;

(b) the said High Court shall be known as the High Court of Andhra Pradesh; and

(c) the principal seat of the said High Court shall be at Hyderabad.

(2) All proceedings pending in the High Court of Hyderabad immediately before the appointed day, other than those certified by the Chief Justice of that High Court under sub-section (2) of section 59 or under sub-section (2) of section 62, shall stand transferred to the High Court of Andhra Pradesh.

(3) Any order made by the High Court of Hyderabad before the appointed day in any proceedings transferred to the High Court of Andhra Pradesh 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 Andhra Pradesh.

(4) Any person who, immediately before the appointed day, is an advocate entitled to practise in the High Court of Hyderabad shall, as from the appointed day, be recognised as an advocate entitled to practise in the High Court of Andhra Pradesh:

Provided that if any such person makes, within one year from the appointed day, an application to the High Court of Bombay or to the High Court of Mysore for being recognised as an advocate entitled to practise in that High Court, he shall be so recognised, and on such recognition, he shall cease to be recognised as an advocate entitled to practise in the High Court of Andhra Pradesh.