Article 231 - Establishment of a common High Court for two or more States - Constitution of India

1 [Article 231. Establishment of a common High Court for two or more States.- (1) Notwithstanding anything contained in the preceding provisions of this Chapter, Parliament may by law establish a common High Court for two or more States or for two or more States and a Union territory. (2) In relation to any such High Court,- 2 [***] (b) the reference in article 227 to the Governor shall, in relation to any rules, forms or tables for subordinate courts, be construed as a reference to the Governor of the State in which the subordinate courts are situate; and (c) the references in articles 219 and 229 to the State shall be construed as a reference to the State in which the High Court has its principal seat: Provided that if such principal seat is in a Union territory, the references in articles 219 and 229 to the Governor, Public Service Commission, Legislature and Consolidated Fund of the State shall be construed respectively as references to the President, Union Public Service Commission, Parliament and Consolidated Fund of India. ] ****************** NOTES:- 1 . Substituted vide Article 16 of the Constitution (7th Amendment) Act, 1956 dated 19-10-1956 w.e.f. 01-11-1956, before it was read as, 231. Restrictions on the powers of the Legislatures of States to make laws with respect to jurisdiction of a High Court in a State having jurisdiction outside that State. Where a High Court exercises jurisdiction in relation to any area outside the State in which it has its principal seat, nothing in this Constitution shall be construed (a) as empowering the Legislature of the State in which the Court has its principal seat to increase, restrict or abolish that jurisdiction; (b) as empowering the Legislature of a State specified in Part A or Part B of the First Schedule in which any such area is situate, to abolish that jurisdiction; or (c) as preventing the Legislature having power to make laws in that behalf for any such area, from passing, subject to the provisions of clause (b), such laws with respect to the jurisdiction of the Court in relation to that area as it would be competent to pass if the principal seat of the Court were in that area. 2 . (1) Omitted vide Article 10 of the Constitution (99th Amendment) Act, 2014 dated 31-12-2014 w.e.f. 13-04-2015, before it was read as, ( a ) the reference in Article 217 to the Governor of the State shall be construed as a reference to the Governors of all the States in relation to which the High Court exercises jurisdiction; (2) Declared unconstitutional by Supreme Court Advocates-on-Record Assn. v. Union of India, 2015 (10) TMI 2687 - Supreme Court