Execution of agricultural land decrees follows the sale order date, so the Collector transfer notification applied here.

A notification directing execution of decrees involving agricultural land to be transferred to the Collector applied where the executing court's order for sale was made after the notification, even if the mortgage decree had been passed earlier. The decisive date was the date of the sale order in execution, not the date of the original decree. Procedural changes were treated as applicable to pending execution proceedings because no vested right exists in a particular procedure. The notification therefore governed the mode of execution, and the decree was required to be transferred to the Collector for execution.

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Issues: Whether the notification directing execution of decrees involving agricultural land to be transferred to the Collector applied to execution proceedings where the mortgage decree had been passed earlier but the executing court's order for sale was made after the notification, and whether the relevant date was the decree date or the executing court's order for sale.

Analysis: The notification was held to govern the mode of execution whenever a civil court in execution had ordered agricultural land to be sold. The decisive date was not the date of the original mortgage decree but the date on which the executing court directed the property to be sold. Procedural provisions were treated as applicable to pending proceedings because no vested right exists in a particular form of procedure, and the earlier decision was distinguished on the footing that it turned on whether the order for sale had already come into existence before the notification.

Conclusion: The notification applied to the case, and the decree ought to have been transferred to the Collector for execution.

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