6 every chief judge and other judges shall hold office for a period of five years from term of office the date on which he enters upon his office or until he attains, - (a) in the case of the chief judge, the age of sixty five years, and (b) in the case of any other judge, the age of sixty years whichever is earlier 7 every chief judge or a judge may, by notice in writing under his hand addressed to resignation the president in case he is a chief judge or a judge of a special court in a union territory or to the governor, in case he is a chief judge or a judge of a special court in a state, resign from his office: provided that the chief judge or any other judge shall, unless he is permitted by the president or the governor, as the case may be, to relinquish his office sooner, continue to hold office until the expiry of three months from the date of receipt of such notice or until a person duly appointed as his successor enters upon his office or until the expiry of his term of office, whichever is the earliest 8 the salaries and allowances payable to and other terms and conditions of service including pension, gratuity and other retirement benefits of the chief judge or a judge of a special court shall be such as may be prescribed by the central government: provided that neither the salary and allowances nor the other terms and conditions of service of the chief judge or a judge of a special court shall be varied to his disadvantage after his appointment salary, allowances and other conditions of service of the chief judge and other judges 9 every chief judge shall exercise such financial and administrative powers over the special court as may be vested in him in such manner as may be prescribed financial and other powers of the chief judge 10 the appropriate government shall determine the nature and categories staff of the special court of the officers and other employees required to assist a special court in the discharge of its functions 11 save as otherwise expressly provided in this act, every special court shall exercise jurisdiction, power and authority of special courts all the jurisdiction, powers and authority exercisable immediately before that day by all courts except the concerned high court and the supreme court in relation to all matters of offences or atrocities committed against women under the indian penal code, 1860 or any other law for the time being in force relating to women ki) sof i powers of special courts 2 of 1974 12 every special court constituted under this act shall have the same powers to hold any inquiry as are vested in a civil court under the code of civil procedure, 1908 and ina criminal court under the code of criminal procedure, 1973 13 on the date of coming into force of this act, the jurisdiction, powers and authority 35in relation to any offences or crimes or atrocities committed against women, shall be exercisable by a special court and no other court except the high court concemed and the supreme court shall have, or be entitled to exercise any jurisdiction, powers or authority in relation to such offences or crimes or atrocities committed against women | exclusion    | of     ||--------------|--------|| jurisdiction | of     || cases        | of     || court        | except || the          | high   || concemed     | and    || supreme      |        || court       |        || 'transfer    | of     || pending      | cases |14 every suit or other proceeding pending before any other court or any authority immediately before the date of coming into force of this act, being a suit or proceeding the cause of action wherein it is based, is such that it would have been if it had arisen after such constitution, within the jurisdiction of a such special court, shall stand transferred on that date to such special court: provided that nothing contained in this section shall apply to a suit or other proceedings pending in a high court or the supreme court  15 the appropriate government shall make necessary arrangements and free legal aid provisions for free legal aid to women for meeting the cost of litigation in special courts aoiwomed:16 every case ina special court shall be heard on daily basis and disposed of as early disposal of as possible and in any case not later than six months from the date of filing of the suit in the cases by 5 court special courts 17 the central government may, by notification in the official gazette, make tules power to make for carrying out the provisions of this act tules statementof objects and reasonsin our society, atrocities against women are increasing day by day cases of atrocities against women are piling up in court courts take a long time in disposing of the cases sexual harassment takes place at work places by the time the courts give their judgement, the life of the women becomes miserable ordinary courts take unduly long time for deciding the cases therefore; the special courts should be set up to exclusively deal with cases against women expeditiously the bill seeks to achieve the above objective new delhi; krishna tirath march 6, 2006 financial memorandumclause 3 of the bill provides that every state government and union territory administration shall set up sufficient number of special courts to deal exclusively with matters arising out of atrocities committed against women clause 8 provides for payment of salaries and allowances to the chief judge and other judges clause 10 provides for appointment and provision of officers and staff required for special courts clause 15 provides for free legal aid to women the expenditure in respect of special courts in respect of union territories shall be met out of the consolidated fund of india and the expenditure in respect of special courts in states will be met out of consolidated funds of the respective states itis likely that an amount of rupees one thousand crore will be involved for setting up special courts in union territories and by way of grants to states per annum a non-recurring expenditure of about rupees two hundred crore is also likely to be involved memorandum regarding delegated legislationclause 17 of the bill empowers the central government to make rules for carrying out the purposes of the bill since the rules will relate to matters of detail only, the delegation of legislative power is of a normal character 