WHEREAS it is expedient to provide for the abatement of, and barring the jurisdiction of courts from entertaining, certain suits, appeals, applications and other legal proceedings; NOW, THEREFORE, in pursuance of the Proclamation of Independence of Bangladesh, read with the Provisional Constitution of Bangladesh Order, 1972, and in exercise of all powers enabling him in that behalf, the President is pleased to make the following Order:-
(1) This Order may be called the Bangladesh (Legal Proceedings) (Third) Order, 1972.
(2) It extends to the whole of Bangladesh.
(3) It shall come into force at once.
Notwithstanding anything contained in any other law for the time being in force, on the commencement of this Order, all suits, appeals, applications and other legal proceedings pending or continuing or deemed to be pending or continuing in any court against the Government of the People's Republic of Bangladesh in which the legality or validity of the State Acquisition and Tenancy Act, 1950(E. B. Act No. XXVIII of 1951), or of the East Bengal State Acquisition and Tenancy (Amendment) Ordinance, 1956 (E.B. Ord. No. III of 1956), or of any other law making any amendment in the said Act, or of the acquisition of any property made under any provision thereof is challenged or called in question shall abate, and all orders, including orders of injunction and other interlocutory orders, passed in such suits, appeals, applications and other legal proceedings shall cease to have any effect; and no court shall entertain, and no person shall bring, any fresh suit, appeal, application or other legal proceedings in which the legality or validity of any such law or acquisition is challenged or called in question.