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On the appointment of a local authority in relation to any local area in the State of Maharashtra and of a Food Inspector for such local area under the principal Act as amended by this Act, anything done or any action taken under the principal Act before the commencement of this Act by a local authority or by any Food Inspector shall, so far as it is not inconsistent with the provisions of the principal Act as amended by this Act, be deemed to have been done or taken under the provisions of the principal Act as amended by this Act, by the local authority or Food Inspector appointed after such commencement unless and until superseded by anything done or action taken under the principal Act as amended by this Act; and accordingly, any reference to the local authority or to any Food Inspector in any law for the time being in force or in any instrument or other document or in any legal proceedings to which a local authority or Food Inspector is a party before such commencement shall, after the commencement of this Act in relation to a local area, be construed as a reference to the local authority or, as the case may be, Food Inspector, appointed after such commencement by the State Government in relation to such local area.