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3. As from the appointed day, the States specified in each of the Schedules shall be administered in all respects as if they formed part of the Province specified in the heading of that Schedule; and accordingly, any reference to an Acceding State in the Government of India Act, 1935, or in any Act or Ordinance made on or after the appointed day shall be construed as not including a reference to any of the merged States, and any reference in any such Ac or Ordinance as aforesaid to a Province specified in a Schedule to this Order shall be construed as including the territories of all the States specified in that Schedule.

4. All the law in force in a merged State or in any part thereof immediately before the appointed day, including orders made under section 8 or section 4 of the Extra-Provincial jurisdiction Act, 1947 (XLVII of 1947), shall continue in force until repealed, modified or amended by a competent Legislature or other competent authority:

Provided that no orders shall be made under the said Act by any authority on or after the appointed day in relation to the governance of any of the merged States.

5. (1) All property, wherever situate, which, immediately before the appointed day, is vested in the Dominion Government for purposes of the governance of a merged State shall, as from that day, vest in the Government of the absorbing Province, unless the purposes for which the property is held immediately before that day are central purposes.

(2) A certificate of the Dominion Government signed by a Secretary to that Government shall be conclusive as to whether the purposes for which any property is held immediately before the appointed day are central purposes.

6. Arrears of any taxes outstanding in a merged State immediately before the appointed day shall be deemed to be due to, and may be recovered by, the Dominion Government or the Government of the absorbing Province, according as the proceeds of any such tax imposed after the appointed day would be due to, and recoverable by, the Dominion Government or the Government of the absorbing Province.