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(1) No suit, prosecution or other legal proceeding shall lie in any Court against any officer or servant of the [State] Government or any person acting under his direction or aiding or assisting him- (a) for, or on account of, or in respect of, any sentence passed, or any Act ordered or done by him, in exercise of any jurisdiction or power purporting to have been conferred on him by the said Act, or (b) for carrying out any sentence passed by any Court in exercise of any such jurisdiction or power as aforesaid. (2) No suit or other legal proceeding shall lie against the [State] Government for, or on account of, or in respect of, any Act, matter or thing whatsoever purporting to have been done in pursuance of or under the said Act. (3) Sub-sections (1) and (2) shall have effect although the said Act was not or might not have been in force at the relevant time. Substituted for the word "Provincial" by the Adaptation Order of 1950.