Bar of legal proceedings

No Suit or other legal proceed- ings, whatsoever, whether civil or criminal, shall lie in any Court of law against any individual orr authority for or on acconut of or in respect of any arrest, detention or extension in the period of detention or detention of the detenues in places other than those specified by the Government under section 3 of the Public Security Act or their premature release, from the custody or in respect of any arrest lor detention under rule 24 of the Defence Rules, made or ordered or purporting to have been made or ordered in good faith by any such individual or authority for the purpose of maintaining public order or securing the defence of the State, between 30ith October, 1947 and the date of enforce- ment of this Act, when such individuals or authorities bona fide believed that they were authorised by the Government in this behalf.