Supreme Court Act, 1959 (Act No. 59 of 1959)9. Removal of proceedings from one division to another |
| (1) | If any civil cause, proceeding or matter has been instituted in any provincial or local division, and it is made to appear to the court concerned that the same may be more conveniently or more fitly heard or determined in another division, that court may, upon application by any party thereto and after hearing all other parties thereto, order such cause, proceeding or matter to be removed to that other division. |
| (2) | An order for removal under subsection (1) shall be transmitted to the registrar of the division to which the removal is ordered, and upon the receipt of such order that division may hear and determine the cause, proceeding or matter in question and shall in that event apply the practice governing the division in which it was instituted and the law according to which that division would but for the removal have heard and determined such cause, proceeding or matter. |