Construction of reference to authorities where new authorities have been constituted.

Any reference by whatever form or words in any law in force to any authority competent on the date immediately preceding the date of publication of this Act, to exercise any power or discharge any function in the cities of Avadi or Tambaram, shall, where a

corresponding new authority has been constituted by or under the City Police Act as extended or under this Act to the said cities, have effect as if it were a reference to that new authority.