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1) The Court having jurisdiction under this Act shall be the High Court having jurisdiction in the place at which the registered office of the company is situate:
Provided that the [Central Government] may, by notification in the [Official Gazette] and subject to such restrictions and conditions as it thinks fit, empower any District Court to exercise all or any of the jurisdiction by this Act conferred upon the Court, and in that case such District Court shall, as regards the jurisdiction so conferred, be the Court in respect of all companies having their registered offices in the district.
(2) For the purposes of jurisdiction to wind up companies, the expression " registered office" means the place which has longest been the registered office of the company during the six months immediately preceding the presentation of the petition for winding up.
(3) Nothing in this section shall invalidate a proceeding by reason of its being taken in a wrong Court