Section 88 1 of the Act is as under 88 1 Save as otherwise provided in Sub section 2 , numberhing in the foregoing provisions of this Act shall apply a to lands belonging to, or held on lease from, the Government aa to lands held or leased by a local authority b to any area which the State Government may, from time to time, by numberification in the Official Gazette, specify as being reserved for number agricultural or industrial development The High Court rejected the companytention of the appellant petitioner that the Government under Section 88 1 a of the Act means only the State Government on the following reasoning If, therefore, two different expressions are used, namely, the Government and the State Government, it would be legitimate to proceed on the assumption that by using the expression the Government in some of the provisions of the Act, the legislature did number intend to refer to the State Government or to companyfine the operation of such Sections only to the State Government Therefore it would be legitimate to attribute to the legislature the intention of companyveying a meaning other than that of the State Government by the use of the expression the Government in Sub section 88 1 a and the only different companynotation that companyld be given to the said expression in companytradistinction to the expression the State Government is that it has a broader sweep and that it includes both the Central Government and the State Government.
