Short title, extent commencement and duration.

(1) This Act may be called the Tamil Nadu Laws (Special Provisions) Act, 2008. (2) It extends to the Chennai Metropolitan Planning Area. (3) It shall be deemed to have come into force on the 27th day of July 2008. (4) It shall cease to have effect on the expiry of one year from the date of its commencement, except as respects things done or omitted to be done before such cesser, and upon such cesser section 8 of the Tamil Nadu General Clauses Act, 1891, shall apply as if this Act had then been repealed by a Tamil Nadu Act.