*In a suit by or against the Government, the authority to be named as plaintiff or defendant, as the case may be, shall be-
(a) in the case of a suit by or against the Central Government, **[the Union of India], and
(b) in the case of a suit by or against a State Government, the State.
*Subs. A.O. 1948, for section 79.
**Subs. by the A.O. 1950, for "the Dominion of India".