Effect of certain orders passed under the Criminal Tribes Act, 1924, etc.

(1) In respect of every person who stood registered under the Criminal Tribes Act, 1924 (hereinafter in this section referred to as the said Act) at the commencement of this Act and who, within a period of five years immediately preceding such commencement, had been either ordered to give security for good behaviour with reference to section 110 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898. (2) Every notification issued in respect of any person under section 3 of the Madras Restriction of Habitual Offenders Act, 1943, and in force at the commencement of this Act, shall be deemed to have been issued under section 3, sub-section (1), of this Act, all references in that notification to the provisions of the said Act and the rules made under it being construed as references to the corresponding provisions of this Act and the rules made under it. (3) Any notification or order issued or made under the said Act in respect of any person referred to in sub-section (1) or sub-section (2), and in force at the commencement of this Act, restricting the movements of such person or placing him in a settlement shall be deemed to have been issued or made under this Act. (4) All settlements established under section 16 of the said Act and existing at the commencement of this Act shall be deemed to have been established under section 8 of this Act.