Section Text
1) If immediately before-
(i) the 18th day of April, 1950, in relation to any Part B State other than the State of Jammu and Kashmir, and (ii) the date of commencement of the Jammu and Kashmir (Extension of Laws) Act, 1956, in relation to the State of Jammu and Kashmir, there was in force in the Part B State concerned any law corresponding to this Act, that corresponding law shall be deemed to have been repealed on the date aforesaid:
Provided that the repeal shall not affect-
(a) the previous operation of any law so repealed or anything duly done or suffered there under., or (b) any right, privilege, obligation or liability acquired, accrued or incurred under any law so repealed, or (c) any penalty, forfeiture or punishment incurred in respect of any offence committed against any law so repealed, or (d) any investigation, legal proceeding or remedy in respect of any such right, privilege, obligation, liability, penalty, forfeiture or punishment as aforesaid, and any such investigation, legal proceeding or remedy may be instituted, continued or enforced, and any such penalty, forfeiture or punishment may be imposed, as if this Act had not come into force in the Part B State concerned :
Provided further that, subject to the preceding proviso, anything done or any action taken, including any patent, permit or licence granted or registration effected under any such corresponding law shall be deemed to have been done or taken under the corresponding provision of this Act as now extended to that State and shall continue to be in force accordingly, unless and until superseded by anything done or any action taken under this Act.
(2) Nothing contained in section 6 of the Part B States (Laws) Act, 1951 (3 of 1951 )-, or section 5 of the Jammu and Kashmir (Extension of Laws) Act, 1956(62 of 1956), shall have effect in relation to this Act.