To make provision for the interim rationalisation of the areas of jurisdiction of the High Courts; and to provide for matters connected therewith.
'Minister' means the Cabinet member responsible for the administration of justice.
Any notice referred to in subsection (1) must be approved by Parliament before publication thereof in the Gazette.
The publication of a notice referred to in subsection (1) does not affect any proceedings which have been instituted but not yet completed at the time of such publication.
amend or withdraw any notice issued in terms of this section.
would be more conveniently or more appropriately heard or determined in another High Court, the Court may, upon application by any part thereto and after hearing all other parties thereto, order such proceedings to be removed to that other High Court.
An order for removal under subsection (1) must be transmitted to the registrar of the High Court to which the removal is ordered, and upon receipt of such order that Court may hear and determine the proceedings in question.
Subsections (1) and (4) of section 6 of, and the First Schedule to, the Supreme Court Act, 1959, are hereby repealed.
Notwithstanding the repeal of the laws referred to in subsection (1), the seats and the areas of jurisdiction of the High Courts referred to in the said First Schedule shall, subject to any alteration under section 2, remain as they were immediately before the commencement of this Act.
This Act is called the Interim Rationalisation of Jurisdiction of High Courts Act, 2001.