Section 8 — Exclusion of jurisdiction and pending proceedings.

8. Exclusion of jurisdiction and pending proceedings.—Where a Family Court has been 

established for any area,— 

(a) no district court or any subordinate civil court referred to in sub-section (1) of section 7 shall, 

in relation to such area, have or exercise any jurisdiction in respect of any suit or proceeding of the 

nature referred to in the Explanation to that sub-section; 

(b) no magistrate shall, in relation to such area, have or exercise any jurisdiction or powers under 

Chapter IX of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (2 of 1974); 

(c) every suit or proceeding of the nature referred to in the Explanation to sub-section (1) of 

section 7 and every proceeding under Chapter IX of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (2 of 

1974),— 

(i) which is pending immediately before the establishment of such Family Court before any 

district court or subordinate court referred to in that sub-section or, as the case may be, before any 

magistrate under the said Code; and 

(ii) which would have been required to be instituted or taken before such Family Court if, 

before the date on which such suit or proceeding was instituted or taken, this Act had come into 

force and such Family Court had been established, 

shall stand transferred to such Family Court on the date on which it is established. 

CHAPTER IV 

PROCEDURE