State · Goa

Preamble

The Goa High Court (Hearing of Writ Petitions by Division Bench and Abolition of Letters Patent Appeals) Act, 2013 (Goa Act 26 of 2013) [9-12-2013]

AN ACT

to provide for hearing of Writ Petitions by Division Bench and for abolition of Letters Patent Appeals in the High Court of Bombay Goa.

Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of Goa in the Sixty-fourth Year of the Republic of India as follows:—

1.Short title and commencement.— (1) This Act may be called the Goa High Court (Hearing of Writ Petitions by Division Bench and Abolition of Letters Patent Appeals) Act, 2013.

(2)It shall come into force on such date as the Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.

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2NextSection 2 Writ Petitions, etc. in the High Court of Bombay at Goa to be heard by Division Bench.— Notwithstanding anything contained in any law for the time being in force or in any instrument having the force of law, every application for the issue of any direction, order or writ under Article 226 of the Constitution of India and every application invoking the jurisdiction of the High Court under Article 227 or Article 228 of the Constitution of India, pending before the High Court of Bombay at Goa, on the date of commencement of this Act, or filed on or after the said date, shall be heard and disposed off by a Division Bench comprising of two Judges to be appointed by the Chief Justice of the High Court of Bombay: