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Bar of jurisdiction of Court.--'[(1) Save in so far as expressly provided in this Act., no Civil or Revenue Court shall have any jurisdiction in respect of any matter concerned with the winding up or dissolution of the registered society or suspension of the Managing Committee of a registered society under its act, or of any dispute required by section 48 to be referred to the Registrar or of any proceedings, under ChapterVII A.] (2) While a society is in liquidation, no suit or other legal proceeding shall be proceeded with or instituted against the liquidator as such or against the society or any member thereof on any matter touching the affairs of the society, except by leave of the Registrar and subject to such terms as he may impose. (3) No order of the State Government, District Judge, Registrar, a person appointed to assist the Registrar, liquidator, or an arbitrator or arbitrators purporting to be one, which under any provision of this Act is declared to be final shall be liable to be challenged, set aside, modified. revised, or declared void in any Court upon merits or upon any ground whatsoever except want of jurisdiction. Comments & case-law [Where the plaintiff used the Co-operative union of which he was a member to recover arrears of interest on deposit made by him, and the dispute was about rate of interest, it was held, that the suit did not lie in the Civil Court, as the cognizance of the dispute by it was barred by section 57 of this Act, AIR 1937 Pat. 531 : 16 PLT 255: 69 IC 689. Sub-section (3) of this section cannot be interpreted to mean that where an order passed by a liquidator is challenged on the ground that it was passed without jurisdiction, no leave of the Registrar is necessary under sub-section (2), reading sub-sections (2) and (3) together, it is clear that whatever may be the scope of the suit or legal proceeding that may be instituted against a liquidator as such the leave of the Registrar will be necessary. Thus, where a person institutes a suit against a liquidator as such for declaration that an award passed by the liquidator to the effect that the person who was a- surety for one of the members of the society under liquidation was liable for the amount for which he was a surety was ultra vires and ineffective, leave of the