The Gazette of India
EXTRAORDINARY
PART II—Section 1
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY
No. 34] NEW DELHI, THURSDAY, JULY 3, 1980/ASADHA 12, 1902
Separate paging is given to this Part in order that it may be filed as a separate compilation
MINISTRY OF LAW, JUSTICE AND COMPANY AFFAIRS (Legislative Department)
New Delhi, the 3rd July, 1980/Asadha 12, 1902 (Saka)
The following Act of Parliament received the assent of the President on the 2nd July, 1980, and is hereby published for general information: —
THE DELHI HIGH COURT (AMENDMENT) ACT, 1980
No. 37 OF 1980
[2nd July, 1980]
An Act further to amend the Delhi High Court Act, 1956.
BE it enacted by Parliament in the Thirty-first Year of the Republic of India as follows: —
1. (1) This Act may be called the Delhi High Court (Amendment) Act, 1980.
(2) It shall come into force on such date as the Central Government
Short title and com- mence- ment.
may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.
2. In sub-section (2) of section 5 of the Delhi High Court Act, 1966, 26 of 1966.
Amend- ment of section 6.
for the words "fifty thousand rupees", the words "rupees one lakh" shall be substituted.
3. In section 25 of the Punjab Courts Act, 1918, as in force in the Union territory of Delhi, for the words "fifty thousand rupees", the words "rupees one lakh" shall be substituted.
246 THE GAZETTE OF INDIA EXTRAORDINARY [PART II—SEC. I]Power of 4. The Chief Justice of the High Court of Delhi may transfer any suit Chief or other proceedings which is or are pending in the High Court immedi- Justice ately before the commencement of this Act and in which no witnesses fer pend- n a ve keen examined before such commencement to such subordinate ing suits court in the Union territory of Delhi as would have jurisdiction to enter- and pro- tain such suit or proceedings had such suit or proceed ngs been instituted ceedings or f^ed for the first time after such commencement. t0 sub- ordinate courts.
R. V. S. PERI SASTRI,
Secy, to the Govt, of India,
CORRIGENDA
In the Requisitioning and Acquisition of Immovable Property (Amendment) Act, 1980 (35 of 1980), as published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 1, dated the 5th April, 1980,—
(a) at page 183/1, in line 6, for "ACQUISITION" read
"ACQUISITION OF";
(b) at page 183/2, in line 11, for "sub-clause (iV read "sub-
clause (ii)".