Savings.

The Government shall be entitled to levy the current rates of assessment as defined in clause (i) of section 2 of the principal Act on all lands on which standard rates of assessment were levied under the principal Act immediately before the date of the commencement of this Act; and accordingly,

1. (a) the repeal of the principal Act by section 2 shall not affect the levy and collection of the current rates of assessment aforesaid; and
2. (b) the State Government or any officer or authority subordinate to them, shall continue to exercise, all the powers which they had immediately before the commencement of the principal Act in respect of matters relating to fixation, reduction, enhancement, cancellation or revision of assessments fixed under the settlement or re-settlement notification in force in the added territories.