THE ASSAM AUTONOMOUS DISTRICTS ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) ACT, 1957

The 29th November 1%7 No.LJL.32/57 /13.-The following Act of the Assam Legislative Assembly which received the assent of the Governor is hereby published for genera] :nformation. (Received the assent of the Governor on the 29th November 1957) ASSAM ACT XXII OF 1957 THE ASSAM AUTONOMOUS DISTRICTS ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) ACT, 1957 (Passed by the Assembly) [Published in the Assam Gazette, dated the 4th December 1957] An Act to provide for the transfer of certain r.ases frow the Co1lrts of the Deputy Commissioner and his Assistant to the District Council Courts. Preamble.-WHEREAS it is deemed necessary to make provision for the transfer of certain cases to the Uourts constituted under Paragraph 4 of the Sixth Schedule to the Constitution of India in the Autonomous Districts of Assam. It is hereby enacted in the Eighth Year of the Republic of India as follows:- 1. Short title, extent and commencement.-(!) The Act may be called the Assam Autonomous Districts Administration of Justice (Miscella­ neous Provisions) Act, 1957. (2) It shall extend to the Autonomous Districts of Assam. (3) It shall come into force on such date as the State Government may direct and it may be brought into force in different areas on different dates. 2. Transfer of certain cases.-The Deputy Commissioner and an Assistant to him shall have no power to try a case which ·is exclusively triable by any court constituted under paragraph 4 of the Sixth Schedule to the Constitution of India and any case which at any stage after tht: Deputy Commissioner or an Assistant to him has taken cognizance of, transpires to be so triable, shall be transferred to a competent court as soon as it so transpires. P. C. DAS, for Secy. to the Govt. of Assam, Leg. and Judl. Deptt.