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After section 14 of the principal Act, the following section shall be inserte_d, namely:- " 14A. (/) Notwithstanding anything contained in the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, an appeal shall lie, from any judgmenl, sentence or order, not being an 2 of 1974. interlocutory order, of a Special Court or an Exclusive Special Cou11, to thc 11 igh Court both on facts and on law. (2) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (J) of section 378 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, an appeal shall lie to the High Court against an order 2 or I '174 of the Special Court or the Exclusive Special Court granting or refusing bail. (J) Notwithstanding anything contained in any ot~r law for the time being in force, every appeal under this section shall be preferred within a period ofninety days from the date ofrhe judgment, sentence or order appealed from: Provided that the High Court may entertain an appeal aflcr the expiry of the said period of ninety days if it is satisfied that thc arpellant had sufficient cause for not preferring the <1ppeal within the period of ninety days: Provided further that no appeal shall be entt:rtained after the expiry ofthc period of one hundred and eighty days. ( 4) Every appeal preferred under sub-sectio ; (/) shall, as far as possible, be disposed ofwirhin a period of three months from the cate of admission of the appeal.".