23.(1) The High Court Division may, by general or special order, authorise any ³[Joint District] Judge or ⁴[Senior ⁵[Civil] Judge or ⁶[Civil] Judge] to take cognizance of, or any District Judge to transfer to a ⁷[Joint District] Judge or ⁸[Senior ⁹[Civil] Judge or ¹⁰[Civil] Judge] under his administrative control, any of the proceedings next hereinafter mentioned or any class of those proceedings specified in the order.

(2) The proceedings referred to in sub-section (1) are the following, namely:-

(a) Proceedings under the Bengal Wills and Intestacy Regulation, 1799;

(b)-(c) [Repealed by the Guardians and Wards Act, 1890 (Act VIII of 1890).]

(d) Proceedings under the Succession Act, 1925, which cannot be disposed of by District Delegates; and

¹¹[* * *].  (3) The District Judge may withdraw any such proceedings taken cognizance of by, or transferred to, a ¹²[Joint District] Judge or ¹³[Senior ¹⁴[Civil] Judge or ¹⁵[Civil] Judge], and may either himself dispose of them or transfer them to a Court under his administrative control competent to dispose of them.