Constitution Section 225 — Jurisdiction of existing High Courts

Part VI — THE STATES — CHAPTER V.—THE HIGH COURTS IN THE STATES

Constitutional

Summary

Every existing High Court continues to have the same authority, procedures, and powers that it had just before the Constitution came into effect. This includes the judges’ powers to manage court cases, make court rules, and decide when judges sit alone or in groups. However, any previous restriction on a High Court’s ability to hear cases about revenue or tax collection no longer applies.

Official Text

Subject to the provisions of this Constitution and to the provisions of any law of the appropriate Legislature made by virtue of powers conferred on that Legislature by this Constitution, the jurisdiction of, and the law administered in, any existing High Court, and the respective powers of the Judges thereof in relation to the administration of justice in the Court, including any power to make rules of Court and to regulate the sittings of the Court and of members thereof sitting alone or in Division Courts, shall be the same as immediately before the commencement of this Constitution:

Provided that any restriction to which the exercise of original jurisdiction by any of the High Courts with respect to any matter concerning the revenue or concerning any act ordered or done in the collection thereof was subject immediately before the commencement of this Constitution shall no longer apply to the exercise of such jurisdiction.