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(1) Notwithstanding anything in the United Provinces Village Panchayat Act, 1920, no suit to which this Act applies shall be instituted before a panchayat establish under the provisions of that Act and if at the commencement of this Act any such suit is pending before a panchayat so established, it shall forthwith be transferred to the court which, but for such panchayat, would have jurisdiction. Jurisdiction of panchayat barred. [The United Provinces Debt Redemption Act, 1940] 532 (2) The provision of section 8 shall apply to decrees passed by a panchayat so established as if for the words “civil court which passed the decree or to which the execution of the decree has been transferred”, in that section the words “court of the Tahsildar” were substituted. Power to make rules