The Shillong (Rifle Range and Umlong) Cantonments Assimilation of State Laws Act, 1953

(1) This Act may be called the Shillong (Rifle Range and Umlong) Cantonments Assimilation of State Laws Act, 1953. (2) It extends to the Scheduled areas. (3) It shall come into force on such date as the State Government may, by notification in the official Gazette, appoint.

In this Act-(a) 'Law' means any Act, Ordinance, Regulation, Rule, Order or Bye-law relating to any of the matters enumerated in List II in the Seventh Schedule to the Constitution. (b) 'Scheduled Areas' mean the areas specified in the Schedule.

(1) All laws which immediately before the commencement of this Act extend to, or are in force in, the Scheduled areas shall from the commencement of this Act cease to be in force in the Scheduled areas except as respects things done or omitted to be done before that day, and for the removal of doubts, it is hereby declared that section 6 of the Assam General Clauses Act, 1915 (Assam Act II of 1915), shall apply in relation to such cessor as it applies in relation to the repeal of an enactment by a State Act. (2) All laws which immediately before the commencement of this Act extend to or are in force in the Khasi and Jaintia Hills District, shall as from that day extend to or, as the case may be, come into force in, the Scheduled areas.

If any difficulty arises in relation to the transition under section 3 from one law or group of laws to another law or group of laws, the State Government may by order notified in the official Gazette, make such provision as it considers necessary for the removal of the difficulty.