Rule 16. Proceedings before the Employees' Insurance Court, etc

(1) The proceedings before an Employees’ Insurance Court shall be commenced on application by the Corporation or the aggrieved person or the employer of an establishment, as the case may be.

(2) Subject to the provisions of Chapter IV of the Code and as provided for in these rules, all proceedings before the Employees’ Insurance Court shall be instituted in the Court appointed for the local area in which the Insured Person was working at the time the question or dispute arose.

(3) If the Court is satisfied that any matter arising out of any proceedings pending before it can be more conveniently dealt with by any other Employees’ Insurance Court in the same State, it may, order such matter to be transferred to such other Court for disposal and shall forthwith transmit to such other Court the records connected with that matter.

(4) The State Government may transfer any matter pending before any Employees’ Insurance Court in the State to any such Court in another State with the consent of the State Government of that State.

(5) The Court to which any matter is transferred under sub-rule (3) or sub-rule (4) shall continue the proceedings, further from the stage it is transferred to it, as if they had been originally instituted in it.

(6) For the purposes of this Rule

(a) The Andhra Pradesh government, by notification in the Official Gazette, establishes these specialized courts for designated local areas within the State.

(b) Judges appointed to these courts must be having such qualifications as is applicable for Labour Court Judges. And

(c) The State Government can establish one court for multiple areas or multiple courts for one area and can issue orders to distribute work among them.