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 11: Power to remove difficulties.
    (1) If any difficulty arises in relation to the transition from any corresponding law to any law which by virtue of section 9 shall, as from the appointed day, extend to, or come into force in, the acquired territories, the Central Government may, by order notified in the Official Gazette, make such provisions as appear to it to be necessary or expedient for removing the difficulty.
     (2) If any difficulty arises in giving effect to the provisions of this Act (otherwise than in relation to the transition from any corresponding law) or in connection with the administration of the acquired territories as a part of the State in which they are included, the State Government concerned may, by order in the Official Gazette, make such provisions not inconsistent with the purposes of this Act, as appear to it to be necessary or expedient for removing the difficulty.
     (3) No power under sub-section (1) or sub-section (2) shall be exercised by the Central Government or, as the case may be, the State Government after the expiry of three years from the appointed day.
     (4) Any order made under sub-section (1) or sub-section (2) may be so made as to be retrospective to any date not earlier than the appointed day.
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