§ 1631. — Transfer to cure want of jurisdiction.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 28USC1631]
TITLE 28--JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE
PART IV--JURISDICTION AND VENUE
CHAPTER 99--GENERAL PROVISIONS
Sec. 1631. Transfer to cure want of jurisdiction
Whenever a civil action is filed in a court as defined in section
610 of this title or an appeal, including a petition for review of
administrative action, is noticed for or filed with such a court and
that court finds that there is a want of jurisdiction, the court shall,
if it is in the interest of justice, transfer such action or appeal to
any other such court in which the action or appeal could have been
brought at the time it was filed or noticed, and the action or appeal
shall proceed as if it had been filed in or noticed for the court to
which it is transferred on the date upon which it was actually filed in
or noticed for the court from which it is transferred.
(Added Pub. L. 97-164, title III, Sec. 301(a), Apr. 2, 1982, 96 Stat.
55.)
Effective Date
Section effective Oct. 1, 1982, see section 402 of Pub. L. 97-164,
set out as an Effective Date of 1982 Amendment note under section 171 of
this title.
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in section 1292 of this title.
