Section 18:
Contracts.
(1) Where, before the appointed day, the State of Bihar or Uttar Pradesh has made
any contract in the exercise of its executive power for any purposes of the State, that contract shall be
deemed to have been made in the exercise of the executive power—
(a) if such purposes are, as from that day, purposes relatable exclusively to the transferred
territories, of the State to which the territories are transferred; and
(b) in any other case, of the State which made the contract, and all rights and liabilities which
have accrued, or may accrue, under any such contract shall, to the extent to which they are rights or
liabilities of the State which made the contract, be rights or liabilities of the State specified in
clause (a) or clause (b) above
(2) For the purposes of this section, there shall be deemed to be included in the liabilities which have
accrued or may accrue under any contract—
(a) any liability to satisfy an order or award made by any court or other tribunal in proceedings
relating to the contract; and
(b) any liability in respect of expenses incurred in or in connection with any such proceedings.
(3) This section shall have effect subject to the other provisions of this Part relating to the
apportionment of liabilities in respect of loans, guarantees and other financial obligations