25. 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;
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(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.
26. Subordinate Courts.—All Courts which immediately before the commencement of this Act
were exercising lawful powers, authority and jurisdiction under the superintendence and control of
either of the existing Courts in any area forming part of the new State shall, until further provision is
made by a competent legislature or authority, continue to exercise their respective powers, authority
and jurisdiction in that area under the superintendence and control of the new Court.