Execution proceedings fall within "proceeding" under the Administrative Tribunals Act, leaving enforcement to the statutory tribunal.

The expression "proceeding" in Section 29 of the Administrative Tribunals Act, 1985 was construed broadly to include execution and enforcement steps, because enforcement is an integral part of the adjudicatory process and incidental to the underlying service dispute. As jurisdiction over such service matters had been withdrawn from civil courts and vested in the statutory tribunal system, the Administrative Tribunal constituted under the Act was treated as the proper forum to enforce final orders of the erstwhile Tribunal. Civil court execution was therefore not available, and enforcement had to be pursued before the Administrative Tribunal under the statutory scheme.

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Issues: Whether execution proceedings to enforce an order of an erstwhile Administrative Tribunal fall within the expression "proceeding" under Section 29 of the Administrative Tribunals Act, 1985, and whether the Administrative Tribunal constituted under the Act has jurisdiction to enforce such orders.

Analysis: The expression "proceeding" in Section 29 was construed in a broad and comprehensive sense to include the prescribed course of action for enforcing a legal right. Execution was treated as a step in the judicial process and an integral part of the adjudicatory machinery, because the right to enforce an order is incidental to the substantive service dispute already decided by the Tribunal. Since jurisdiction over such service matters had been taken out of civil courts and vested in the Tribunal, the later Tribunal constituted under the Act was held to be the proper forum for enforcement of orders passed by the erstwhile Tribunal.

Conclusion: Execution before the civil court was held not to lie, and the petitioners were required to seek enforcement before the Administrative Tribunal constituted under the Act.

Final Conclusion: The petition failed, and the enforcement remedy was confined to the Administrative Tribunal under the statutory scheme.

Ratio Decidendi: The term "proceeding" in Section 29 of the Administrative Tribunals Act, 1985 includes execution/enforcement proceedings, so the Tribunal constituted under the Act has jurisdiction to enforce final orders of the erstwhile Tribunal.

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