Assimilation of Laws

(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.