4A.
Power to confer jurisdiction on subordinate
judicial officers and to transfer proceedings
to such officers.-(1) The High Court
may, by general or special order, empower any
officer exercising original civil jurisdiction
subordinate to a district court, or authorise
the Judge of any District Court to empower any
such officer subordinate to him, to dispose
of any proceedings under this Act transferred
to such officer under the provisions of this
section.
(2) The Judge of a District
Court may, by order in writing, transfer at
any stage any proceeding under this Act pending
in his court for disposal to any officer subordinate
to him empowered under sub-section (1).
(3) The Judge of a District
Court may at any stage transfer to his own court
or to any officer subordinate to him empowered
under sub-section (1) any proceeding under this
Act pending in the court of any other such officer.
(4) When any proceedings are
transferred under this section in any case in
which a guardian has been appointed or declared,
the judge of the District Court may , by order
in writing, declare that the Court of the Judge
or officer to whom they are transferred shall,
for all or any of the purposes of this Act,
be deemed to be the court which appointed or
declared the guardian.
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