Procedure in an IDV and DV Parts

(a) Unless otherwise authorized or required by law, no case transferred from another court to the Supreme Court and referred for disposition to an IDV Part thereof may be consolidated with any other case pending before such IDV Part. (b) Each case transferred from another court to the Supreme Court and referred for disposition to an IDV Part thereof, and each case transferred from another court to the Supreme or County Court where a DV Part is established and referred for disposition to a DV Part thereof, shall be subject to the same substantive and procedural law as would have applied to it had it not been transferred, and no party thereto shall be required to pay any fee for the assignment of an index number thereto upon such transfer.