Section 15. Practice and procedure in common High Court

PART IV HIGH COURT 13. Common High Court for Assam and Nagaland.— (1) As from the appointed day,— (a) there shall be a common High Court for the State of Assam and the State of Nagaland to be called the High Court of Assam and Nagaland (hereinafter referred to as the common High Court); (b) the Judges of the High Court of Assam holding office immediately before that day shall, unless they have elected otherwise, become on that day the Judges of the common High Court. (2) Expenditure in respect of the salaries and allowances of the Judges of the common High Court shall be allocated between the State of Assam and the State of Nagaland in such proportion as the President may by order determine. 14. Provision as to Advocates.— (1) As from the appointed day,— (a) in the Advocates Act, 1961 (25 of 1961), in section 3, in sub-section (1), for clause (b), the following clause shall be substituted, namely:— "(b) for the States of Assam and Nagaland and the Union Territory of Manipur, to be known as the Bar Council of Assam and Nagaland;"; (b) the Bar Council of Assam shall be deemed to be the Bar Council of Assam and Nagaland. (2) Any person who immediately before the appointed day is an advocate entitled to practise in the High Court of Assam shall be entitled to practise as an advocate in the common High Court. (3) All persons who immediately before the appointed day are advocates on the roll of the Bar Council of Assam shall as from that day become advocates on the roll of the Bar Council of Assam and Nagaland. (4) The right of audience in the common High Court shall be regulated in accordance with the like principles as, immediately before the appointed day, are in force with respect to the right of audience in the High Court of Assam: Provided that as between the Advocate-General of Assam and the Advocate-General of Nagaland the right of audience shall be determined with reference to their respective dates of enrolment as advocates. 15. Practice and procedure in common High Court.— Subject to the provisions of this Part, the law in force immediately before the appointed day with respect to practice and procedure in the High Court of Assam shall, with necessary modifications, apply in relation to the common High Court. (c) after considering all objections and suggestions which may have been received by it before the date so specified, determine the matters mentioned in sub-section (4) by one or more final orders and cause such order or orders to be published in the Official Gazette of the State of Assam; and upon such publication the order or orders shall have the full force of law and shall not be called in question in any court; (d) amend the Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 1961, so as to include therein the parliamentary constituency of Nagaland and the assembly constituencies delimited under this section.