Special provision for pending cases.

The provisions of this Act shall apply to all suits and appeals relating to recovery of possession of any house or shop constructed during the period intervening the first day of January, 1954, and the 31st day of December, 1965 (both days inclusive) pending at the commencement of Jammu and Kashmir Houses and Shops Rent Control (Amendment) Act, 1970 'in the same manner as they apply to the houses and shops constructed before the 1st day of January, 1954 as if this Act were in force when cause of action arose in such suit or suits out of which such appeals have arisen.