Keyword(s):
Existing Law, Transferred Territory

An Act to extend certain lit-vs to the ttam ferred territorw
in the 3\Stnte of Tamil h’ado].
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i WHEREASit is expedient to provide that certain laws should
be extended to, and by virtue of such extension should
be in force in, the transferred territory in the 3[State of
ki”amil Nadu];
BE it enacted in the Eleventh Year -of the Republic of
India as follows :-
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I. (1) This Act may be called the lITakil Nadu] short and com- titb
(Transferred Territory) Extension of !Laws (, Act, 1960. ,,,nt.
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(2) It shall come into force on such$date as the State
Government may, by notification, appoint.

  1. In this Act, unless the context otherwise reqt ires,- ~efinitioG.
    (a) ‘$existing law ” means any law, Ordinance,
    Proclamation, regulation, order, by-law, or rule passed , .
    or made before the date of the commencemeilt of this
    Act by Parliament, or by any Legislature, authority or
    person having power to make wch a law, Ordinance,
    , Proclamation, regulation, order, by-law or rule ;
    1 These words were substituted for the Word “Madras” by the
    Tamil Nadu Adaptztion of Laws Order, 1969, as amended by the
    Tamil Nadu Adaptation of Laws(Second Amendment) Order,1969,
    %ForStatement of Objects and Reasons, see Fort St. George
    Gazette Extraordiary, dated the 27th April 1960, Part IV-A,
    Page 179.
    3 This expressiop was substituted .for the. expression 6LState
    ~adras”by+theTamil.Nadu.Adapiation of .Laws Order. 1969, as
    amended by the Tamil Nadu Adaptation of Laws (Scconci Amend-
    ment) Order, 1969.588
    ‘(TkdJetred Territory) [1960: T.N,A&2
    Extension of Laws
    (6) “transferred territory” means the Kanyakumar
    district and the Shencottah taluk of the Tirunelvel
    district.
  2. SO much of the enactments specified in the Firs i
    cert?,in Schedule as is it force on the date of the commence~ekt
    enactments. of this Act in’the l[State of Tamil Nadtl] except ill thf
    transferred territory and rt:lates to matters with re spect
    to which the State Legislature has power to make laws for
    the State is hereby extendtd to, and shall be in force in
    the transferred territory.
    Ame~ldmtnt 4. (1) The enactlnens specif~edin the Second Schedule
    and exten-
    sion of
    certain en-
    hcbments.
    are hereby amended to the extent and in the manner rnen-
    tioned in the fourth column thereof.
    (2) So much of the enac~mentsspecified in tile
    Second Schedule as is in force on the date of the com-
    mencement of this Act in the ‘[State of Tamil Nadu]
    except in the transferred territory and relates to matters
    with respect to which the State Legislature has power to
    make laws for the State and as amended to the extent and
    in the manner mentioned in the fourth column of the said
    Schedule is hereby extended to, and shall be in force in,
    the transferred territory.
    Construc~ion 5. (1) Any reference in any enactment specified in
    of references the First and Second Schedules to a law which is not in
    laws
    in force In
    the trans-
    force in the transferred territory shall, in relation to that
    territory, be construed as 3. reference to the corresponding
    ferred law, if’ any, in force in that territory.
    territory.
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    (2) Any reference in any existing law which continues
    to be in force in the transferred territory after the date of
    1he commencement of this Act to any law repealed by
    section 7 shall, in relation to that territory, be construed
    as a reference to the enactment specified in the First
    or Second Schedule correspondi:~gto the law so repealed.
    1 This exression was substiturf-dfor the expression “State of
    Madras” by the .Tamil Nadu A::aptation of Laws Order, 1969, as
    by the TsarnilNadu Adaptation of LZWS(Second Amen-
    dmnt) order. 156R
    “i1960 :,f.~:Act 231 (?rangerrid Territory) 534
    Extension i.$ Lu~vs
  3. Any reference, by whatever form of words, in any Construction
    existing law to any authority competent at the date of the Of
    passing of that law to exercise any powers or discharge to authorj-
    ties where
    any functions in the transferred territory shall, where a newau&o-
    correspondiag new authority has knconstituted by or rities have
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  1. If, immediately before the datedthewmnamentmml of
    of this Act, there is in force in the transferred territory comspon-
    any Act, Ordinance, Pr oclamation, regulation, order, ding laws.
    by-law, ruJe.or other law corresponding:tolan enactment ,
    ,speci$ed in the First or Second Schedule; :whether sucb . . ,,
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    ~ct,.~rdi~@pce, P~oclamation,.regulation~. Order, by-law,
    ]’ruleorother lawisin force by virtiJai.of section ,119~of
    the;States ,Reorganisation Act, 1956jmntral ‘Act 37’of , .
    1956) or by,virtue .of*anyother legislative power, such
    corresponding iswshall, onthe date of the commencement
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    of this.ActDstand repealed to the extent towhich the corresb ..
    ponding law,relates to matters with respect to which the ., , .
    State Legi’$laturehas power to make laws for the’ State.

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