ORDER :

Balasubrahmanyan, J.—The Petitioners in all these several cases are claimants for compensation arising out of motor accidents. They had preferred their applications for compensation before the Motor Accidents Claims Tribunal, Chingleput, where they are even now pending inquiry. What the Petitioners now want this Court to do is to transfer these pending applications to the file of the Motor Accidents Claims Tribunal, Madras. It is quite likely that the reasons urged for Site transfer are quite meritorious. But since I had doubts about the jurisdiction of this Court to order the transfer, as prayed for, I invited arguments from the bar on the point.

2. Mr. Gangaram Prasad argued the legal position on behalf of the claimants in one of the petitions. His arguments were more or less adopted by other learned Counsel having to argue similar transfer petitions for their clients.

3. Before examining learned Counsel's arguments it would be convenient to sum up the relevant statutory provisions in the Motor Vehicles Act, 1939. The Act has made provision for constitution of Motor Accidents Claims Tribunals as Special Tribunals. They are charged with the duty of adjudicating on claims for