Section 1. Short title and commencement

1. Short title and commencement.— (1) This Act may be called the Delhi High Court Act, 1966. (2) Section 17 shall come into force on such date[1] as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint; and the remaining provisions of this Act shall come into force at once. 1. 1st May, 1967, vide notification No. G.S.R. 508 (E), dated 11th April, 1967, see Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, sec. 3 (i). 2. Ins. by Act 37 of 1969, s. 2 (w.e.f. 1-10-1969). (ii) the references to the State Public Service Commission, the Legislature of the State and the Consolidated Fund of the State shall be construed, respectively as references to the Union Public Service Commission, Parliament and the Consolidated Fund of India; (e) the provisions of article 230 shall apply subject to the modifications that — (i) in clause (1) thereof, for the words "High Court" in both the places where they occur, the words "High Court for a Union territory", and for the words "any Union territory", the words "any other Union territory" shall be substituted; (ii) for clause (2) thereof, the following clause shall be substituted, namely: — "(2) Where the High Court for a Union territory exercises jurisdiction in relation to another Union territory, the reference in article 227 to the administrator of the Union territory of Delhi shall, in relation to any rules, forms or tables for subordinate courts in that other Union territory, be construed as a reference to the administrator of that other Union territory.". (2) Between the coming into force of this section and the appointed day, the President may, after consultation with the Chief Justice of India, appoint the Chief Justice of the High Court of Delhi and as many other Judges of the said High Court as he thinks fit, and any appointments so made shall take effect as from the appointed day.