Section 8: Cesser of Jurisdiction, etc.

(1) in so far as jurisdiction is conferred upon the Court in respect of the causes or matters mentioned in the foregoing provisions of this part of this Act, the High Court or any other court of a State or of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja shall, to the extent that jurisdiction is so conferred upon the Court, cease to have jurisdiction in relation to such causes or matters.
[1973 No. 38.]
(2) Notwithstanding subsection (1) of this section, the President may by order and to the extent set out in the said order, vest in the High Court or any other court of a state or the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja jurisdiction either generally in relation to the causes and matters set out in the preceding section or specially in relation to any particular cause or matter which may be specified in the said order.
(3) Nothing in the foregoing provisions of this section shall affect the jurisdiction and all other powers of the High Court or any other court of a state to continue to hear and determine causes and matters that are part-heard before such court at the date of the assumption of the functions of the federal high court at the date when jurisdiction is otherwise conferred on the court by the president, and any proceedings in any such cause and matters, which are still part-heard at the expiration of the period of six months beginning with date of assumption of the functions of the court or the date when jurisdiction is otherwise conferred on the court, shall abate on the expiration of that period.