Section 150 — Transfer of business
When a court’s work moves, its authority moves with it. Subject to any contrary provision, where the business of one Court is transferred to another, the transferee Court has the same powers and must perform the same duties — under the Code — as the Court it took the business from. The work continues without a break.
How to read Section 150
The trigger
The business of a Court — its cases and functions — is transferred to another Court (e.g. on reorganisation or abolition).
Powers & duties pass
The transferee Court steps into the other’s shoes — same powers, same duties under the Code — for that business.
The saving
It applies “save as otherwise provided” — a default, displaced by any contrary law or order of transfer.
The bare Act
Save as otherwise provided, where the business of any Court is transferred to any other Court, the Court to which the business is so transferred shall have the same powers and shall perform the same duties as those respectively conferred and imposed by or under this Code upon the Court from which the business was so transferred.
In short: if one court’s work is handed over to another, the new court can do — and must do — everything the Code allowed and required of the old court for that work. Nothing is lost in the move.
→ § 150 is a continuity provision. When jurisdiction or pending cases are transferred — on a court’s abolition, re-organisation, or an administrative shift — the receiving court is clothed with the same powers and duties the Code gave the original. So it may continue trials, decide applications and execute decrees that began before the transferring court, as if they had always been its own.
Key terms decoded
The work a court handles — its suits, proceedings, applications, execution and functions under the Code.
The business is moved to another court — e.g. on abolition, re-organisation, or an administrative transfer of jurisdiction / cases.
The receiving court has all the powers and bears all the duties the Code placed on the transferring court — for that business.
Powers are conferred, duties are imposed — the section carries both across, as the Code (and rules under it) had fixed them.
A default: the rule yields where some other law or the order of transfer provides differently.
Continuity — pending matters do not lapse or restart; the new court simply carries them on with full authority.
The picture — the work moves, and so does the authority
§ 150 makes a transfer of business a change of address, not a break in authority: whatever the old court could and had to do under the Code, the new court can and must do — so litigants are not sent back to square one.
Part by part — the one sentence
Save as otherwise provided…
A default rule — it operates unless some other law or the order of transfer lays down something different.
…where the business of any Court is transferred to any other Court…
It bites whenever a court’s business is moved to another court — whatever the cause of the transfer.
…the Court to which the business is so transferred shall have the same powers and shall perform the same duties … as those … upon the Court from which the business was so transferred.
The receiving court inherits the transferring court’s powers and duties under the Code — no more, no less — for that business.
Why it matters
Reorganise the courts — without disrupting the cases
§ 150 makes administrative change painless for the litigant.
Connected provisions
Section 150 is a continuity provision in Part XI. It complements the Code’s transfer-of-cases machinery (§§ 22–25) — which moves individual suits — by carrying the powers and duties across when a whole court’s business is transferred.