' This is an appeal against the order, dated 12th July, 1971 passsd by the Land Commissioner, Hyderabad whereby he accepted the appeal of the respondent regarding grant of B. Nos. 165/5, 166/5 to 12 and 169/3, 4, 4-A, 5(13-27 Acres), Deli Gaud, Taluka Tando Bago, District Hyderabad.
2. The impugned order was passed on 12th July, 1971 and the appeal has been filed on 30th July, 1971. According to rule 10 of the West Pakistan Land Reforms Rules, 1959 the appeal could be filed within 10 days of the date of order and according to rule 13 of the Rules, the period duty spent in obtaining certified copies of the orders has to be excluded. The counsel for the petitioner contended that he had applied for copy of the order on 16th July, 1971 which was supplied to him of 22nd July, 1971 and the excluding this period, his appeal would be in time. He also argued that event,if his-appeal be time-barred by one day, it may be treated as revision petition in which case, the limitation period would be 30 days.
3. The impugned order was announced on 12th July, 1971. The petitioner did not apply for copy for 13, 14- and 15 i,e, 3 days. The copy was supplied to him on 22nd July, 1971 and he filed the appeal to 30th July, 1971, i,e, he to 8 days more in filing the appeal. Even the petitioner is to be blamed for the delay in issue of the copy as he supplied the stamps on account of copying charges only on 22nd July, 1971 and as such the authorities were not expecred to prepare the copy earlier in absence of supply of the court-fee stamps. In any case, the appeal is time-barred at least by one day. The limitation provided in rule 10(2) of the Land Reforms Rules, 1959, is prescribed by a special law i,e, Land Reforms Regulation 64 of 1959 and the section 29(2) of the Limitation Act, 1908 is applicable.
By virtue of the provisions of the said section 29(2), the provisions of section 5 of the Limitation Act do not apply and as such the delay in tiling time-barred appeal under rule 10(2) ibid cannot be condoned. The appeal is, therefore, dismissed as time-barred.