JAGAT NARAYAN, J.—This is a revision application by the defendants against an order of the Civil Judge, Pali, holding that a sale-deed executed by the Chairman, Municipal Board, Pali, for Rs. 99/- in favour of the plaintiff is not inadmissible in evidence for want of registration, because the provisions of the Transfer of Property Act do not apply to it as it is a transfer covered by sec. 2 of the Government Grants Act, 1895. The revision application has been opposed on behalf of the plaintiff.

2. The first contention on behalf of applicants is that the Government Grants Act, 1895 is no longer applicable to Rajasthan. Sec. 1(2) of the Act as it stands today reads as follows :

"It extends to the whole of India except the territories which immediately before 1.11.56 were comprised in Part B States."

3. Rajasthan was a Part B State before 1st November, 1956.

4. The above sub-section stood as follows before it was adapted under the Adaptation of Laws (No. 2) Order, 1956—

"It extends to the whole of India except Part B States."

5. By the Adaptation of Laws (No. 2) Order, 1956 for "Part B States" the words "the territories which immediately before the 1st November, 1956 were comprised in Part

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