(3)All legal proceedings pending in the Federal Court, immediately before the Constitution Day, shall on such day, stand transferred to, and be deemed to be pending before, the Supreme Court for determination; and any judgment or order of the Federal Court delivered or made before the Constitution Day shall have the same force and effect as if it had been delivered or made by the Supreme Court.
(4) Without prejudice to the other provisions of the Constitution, the Supreme Court shall have the same jurisdiction and powers as were, immediately before the Constitution Day, exercisable by the Federal Court, and references in any law to the Federal Court shall be deemed to be references to the Supreme Court.
(5) Without prejudice to the other provisions of the Constitution, each High Couii shall have the same jurisdiction and powers as were exercisable by it immediately before the Constitution Day.
(6) Subject to the provisions of the Constitution-
228. Legal proceedings by or against the Federation of Pakistan.-(1) Subject to clause (2).. if any legal proceedings in which the Federation of Pakistan is a party were pending in any court, immediately before the Constitution Day, then in those proceedings, for “the Federation of Pakistan", “Pakistan” shall as from that day, be deemed to be substituted.
(2) Any legal proceedings which, but for the Constitution, could have been brought by or against the Federation of Pakistan' in respect of a matter which, immediately before the Constitution Day, was the responsibility of the Federation and has, under the Constitution, become the responsibility of a Province, shall be brought by or against the province concerned; and if any such legal proceedings were pending in any court, immediately before the Constitution Day, then, in those proceedings for the Federation of Pakistan the Province concerned shall, as from that day, be deemed to be substituted.
229. Public Service Commission.-A person holding office as Chairman or other member of the Federal Public Service Commission or of a Provincial Public Service Commission, immediately before the Constitution Day, shall, as from that day continue to hold his respective office on the same terms and conditions as to remuneration and other privileges as were applicable to him immediately before the Constitution Day, until the expiration of his term of office as determined by the law under which he was appointed.
