The Shillong (Rifle Range and Umlong) Cantonments Assimilation of Laws Act, 1954

(1) This Act may be called the Shillong (Rifle Range andUmlong) Cantonments Assimilation of Laws Act, 1954. (2) It shall come into force on such date1as the Central Government may, by notification in theOfficial Gazette, appoint.

In this Act:-- (a) appointed day means the date appointed under sub-section (2) of section 1 for the cominginto force of this Act. (b) law means so much of any Act, Ordinance, Regulation, rule, order or bye-law as relates toany of the matters enumerated in Lists I and III in the Seventh Schedule to the Constitution; (c) "scheduled areas means, the areas specified in the Schedule.

(1) All laws which immediately before the appointed day extend to, orare in force in the scheduled areas shall on that day cease to be in force in the scheduled areas exceptas respects things done or omitted to be done before that day, and for the removal of doubts, it isherby declared that section 6 of the General Clauses Act, 1897 (10 of 1897) shall apply in relation tosuch successor as it applies in relation to the repeal of an enactment by a Central Act. (2) All laws which immediately before the appointed day extend to, or in force in, the Khasi andJaintia Hills District shall as from that day extend to and be in force in the scheduled areas.

If any difficulty arises in relation to the transition under section 3from one law or group of laws to another law or group of laws, the Central Government may, by ordernotified in the Official Gazette, make such provisions as it considers necessary for the removal of thedifficulty.