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 3. As from the appointed day, 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 States specified in Article 2(1)(a) of, or in the First Schedule to, this Order or to the State of Kutch, and any reference in any such Act or Ordinance as a foresaid to the Chief Commissioners’ Provinces shall be construed as including a reference to the new Provinces.

4. All the law in force in any of the new Provinces or in any part thereof immediately before the appointed day, including orders made under section 3 or section 4 of the Extra-Provincial Jurisdiction Act, 1947 (XLVII of 1947), shall continue in force until replaced, modified or amended by the Dominion 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 administration of any of the new Provinces or any part thereof.

For the purposes of this Article "law" includes any ordinance, order, bye-law, rule or regulation having the force of law.


 * Bhagal
 * Bhagat
 * Balsan
 * Bashahr
 * Bhajji
 * Bija
 * Chamba


 * Darkoti
 * Dhami
 * Jubbal
 * Keonthal
 * Kumharsain
 * Kunihar
 * Kuthar


 * Mahlog
 * Mandi
 * Mangal
 * Sangri
 * Sirmur
 * Suket
 * Tharoch

(i) The State of Kutch, excluding the area known as Kutchigarh situate in Okhamandal.

(ii) That part of the United State of Saurashtra which is comprised in the Adhoi Mahal of Morvi, consisting of the seven villages Adhoi, Dharna, Gamdan, Halara, Lakhpat, Rampur and Vasatava.

C. RAJAGOPALACHARI, Governor-General.

K. V. K. SUNDARAM, Secretary.