Validation of certain proceedings

Notwithstanding any, judgement, decree or order of any court, other than the Supreme Court of India, no scheme published under section 19 of the East Punjab Holdings (Consolidation) and Prevention of Fragmentation) Act, 1948, between 31st day of December, 1951, and the 1st day of January, 1956, in respect of land of an evacuee forming part of an estate or estates and no subsequent proceedings taken in relation thereto shall be, and shall be deemed ever to have been, invalid merely by reason of the fact that the Punjab Consolidation of Land Proceedings (Validation) Act, 1957, by which the said schemes and proceedings were validated, had been declared by any court, not being the Supreme Court of India, to be invalid.