Act Number: 64

Act Name: The Acquired Territories (Merger) Act, 1960

Year: 1960

Enactment Date: 1960-12-28

Long Title: An Act to provide for the merger into the States of Assam, Punjab and West Bengal of certain territories acquired in pursuance of the agreements entered into between the Governments of India and Pakistan and for matters connected therewith.

Ministry: Ministry of Home Affairs

Department: Department of States

Section 9: Extension of laws.
    All laws in force in the acquired territories immediately before the appointed day shall, as from that day, cease to be in force in those territories and all laws in force generally in the State concerned in which the acquired territories are included shall, as from that day, extend to, or as the case may be, come into force in, those territories:
     Provided that anything done or any action taken before the appointed day under any law in force in the acquired territories shall be deemed to have been done or taken, as from the appointed day, under the corresponding law extended to, and in force, in those territories.
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