Extension of laws.

(1) All the Acts and Regulations specified in the First Schedule, and so much of the Acts and Ordinance specified in the Second Schedule as relates to matters with respect to which the State Legislature has power to make laws are hereby extended to, and shall be in force in the merged States.

(2) The Acts specified in the first column of the Third Schedule shall be amended in their application to the merged States specified in the second column in the manner set forth in the third column of that Schedule.

(3) (a) Subject to the provisions of clause (b) and the proviso to sub-section (1) of section 4, all appointments, delegations, notifications, orders, bye-laws, rules and regulations made, issued or prescribed under any Act, Ordinance or Regulation hereby extended to the merged States shall be deemed to extend to and be in force in the merged States.

(b) Where any such appointment, delegation, notification, order, bye-law, rule or regulation has been made, issued or prescribed in respect of any specified local area, it shall be deemed to extend to and to be in force also in any area of the merged States which has been included in such local area under any law for the time being in force.