Special Economic Zones Act, 2005
23. Designated Courts to try
suits and notified offences
1.
The
State Government, in which the Special Economic Zone is situated, may, with the
concurrence of the Chief Justice of the High Court of that State, designate one
or more courts-
a.
to
try all suits of a civil nature arising in the Special Economic Zone; and
b.
to
try notified offences committed in the Special Economic Zone.
1.
2.
No
court, other than the court designated under sub-section (1), shall try any
suit or conduct the trail of any notified offence referred to in that
sub-section :
Provided that the courts, in which any suit
of a civil nature in a Special Economic Zone had been filed before the
commencement of this Act, shall continue to try such suit after such
commencement:
Provided further that the courts, in which
any trial of any notified offence is being conducted before the commencement of
this Act, shall continue to conduct the trial of such offence after the
commencement of this Act:
Provided also that the courts competent to
try any notified offence, before the commencement of this Act, shall conduct
the trial in respect of such offence after the commencement of this Act until
the courts have been designated under sub-section (1) and all such cases
relating to such trials shall thereafter be transferred to such courts so
designated which shall conduct the trial from the stage at which such cases
were so transferred.