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It cannot also be argued that whenever a court is named to decide a controversy arising under a special Act, it discharges function under the Act as a functionary constituted under the Act. The law is otherwise well settled that all applications made to a court under special law are also subject to law of limitation. If that be so, it only denotes that application which are required to be made to a named court under the Special Act, the court does not become an authority or Tribunal constituted under that Act, but remains a court to which application under the Act are to be made. It may derive its jurisdiction to deal with matter as per the provision of Special enactment but for that reason it does not cease to be a court and become a Tribunal constituted under the Act as distinct from a court.