(1) The Governor may,
by Order in Council —
(a)
establish wardens’ courts at such places in the State as he thinks
necessary;
(b)
assign to any warden’s court such mineral field or district thereof, as
he thinks fit;
(c)
alter the place at which a warden’s court is established;
(d)
discontinue the holding of a warden’s court at any place;
(e)
cancel the assignment of a mineral field or district thereof to a
warden’s court and assign it to another warden’s court.
(2) When the holding
of a warden’s court is discontinued, or any mineral field or district
thereof is no longer assigned to that court, all proceedings pending in that
court and all the records thereof, or such of the proceedings and such of the
records as relate to the mineral field or district thereof, as the case
requires, shall be transferred to and be continued in such other
warden’s court as the Governor by Order in Council directs.
[Section 127 amended: No. 100 of 1985 s. 97; No.
59 of 2004 s. 116.]