ORDER :- These petitions, which ask for a rule of prohibition restraining the second respondent, the Motor Vehicles Accidents Claims Tribunal, Coimbatore from proceeding with the enquiry into certain claims preferred by the first respondent in each of these petitions, raise a point of jurisdiction of that Tribunal. The motor accident occurred on 6-1-1961, in which the bus belonging to the first of the petitioners and a motor car owned by the first respondent in one of these petitions were involved. The accident resulted in personal injuries to the claimants before the Tribunal Section 110(1) of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1939 provides for a constitution by the Government, by notification

in the Official Gazette, of Motor Accidents Claims Tribunals, for specified areas, for adjudicating upon claims for compensation, in respect of accidents involving death or bodily injury to persons, arising out of the use of motor vehicles. By a notification dated 12-7-1961, the District and Sessions Judge, Coimbatore, was constituted as Tribunal for such a purpose. Before then such claims were adjudicated on suits in civil courts. The procedure to be followed by applicants before the Tribunal