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(7) No suitfor damages, injunction or declaration of t disputes. excluded classes. tion or continuance f suits, prosecu. Of for any other relief, no prosecution for any Offence, ions, etc. and no application or other proceeding under any other law, shall be instituted in respect of any entry into or worship in any temple or gurdwara, whether before or after the commencement of this Act, on the sole ground that such entry or worship is against the custom OF usage which excludes certain Classes of Hindus or Sikhs from such entry or worship. _ (2) No suit, Prosecution, application or proceeding of the nature aforesaid, instituted before the commencement of this Act, shall be continued thereafter, without the sanction of the [Centra] Government]. Power to decide ¢ If any question arises as to whether a place is. or. is not a temple or gurdwara as defined in this Act, the Other rights of ; “Substituted for the words “State Government” by the “ab Re-organisatio® | (Chandigarh) (Adaptation of Laws on State'and Concatreat een ‘Ordar, (934 . Fast Pb. Act XVI] REMOVAL OF RELIGIOUS _ja¢ 1948: AND SOCIAL DisABlEmres (2 TITIES, (b) be prevented from— (i) having access to or using any river, stream spring, well, tank, cistern, water-tap or other watering place, or any bathin g place, burial or cremation ground, any sanitary conveni- ence, any road or pathway which the mem- bers of all other castes and Classes of Hindus | or Sikhs have a right to use or have access to ; | | (ii) having access to or using any public convey- ance licensed by the 4[Central’ Govern- ment] or any local authority to ply for hire; ett... (iii) having access to or using any building or place used for charitable or public pur- poses maintained wholly or partially out of the revenues of the 2[State] or the funds of a local authority ; (iv) having access to a place of public amuse- ment or a place of public entertainment ; (vy) ‘having access to a shop to which the members of all other castes and classes of Hindus or Sikhs are ordinarily admitted ; (vi) having access to or using any place set apart ... " or maintained for the use of Hindus of Sikhs generally but not for the use of any particular section.or. class thereof