Repeal and Savings

Repeal and Savings.-The Jammu and Kashmir Village Panchayat Act, Svt. 2008 is hereby repealed:

Provided that-

1. (a) such repeal shall not affect the liability of any person to pay any sum due from him under the said Act or the validity or invalidity of anything already done thereunder;
2. (b) all Panchayats established under the Jammu and Kashmir Village Panchayat Act, Svt. 2008 and existing immediately before the commencement of this Act shall be deemed to have been established under this Act; and the rights and liability of any such Panchayat shall be vested in and attached to the Panchayat so deemed to have been established; and any appointment, bye-law made, issued or imposed by a Panchayat under the Act so repealed shall, so far as it is not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, be deemed to have been made, issued or imposed under the provisions of this Act, in respect of the Panchayat established under this Act unless and until superseded by any fresh notification, notice, order, permission, rule, or bye-law made, issued or imposed under this Act.