Indemnity

No suit or other legal proceeding whatsoever, whether Civil or Criminal, shall lie in any Court of law against the State Government, any officer of the Central or State Government or any authority or person acting under the orders of the State Government or of any such officer, for or in respect of any act, matter or thing in good faith ordered or done or purporting to have been ordered or done under the provisions of the said Act before the commencement of this Act, on the ground that such act, matter or thing was in excess of the powers conferred by the law as then in force, if the same could lawfully be ordered or done under the said Act after the commencement of this Act.