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261 THE CONSTITUTION OF INDIA
(Part XXI. - Temporary, Transitional and Special Provisions)
(b) to prevent any competent Legislature or other competent authority from
repealing or amending any law adapted or modified by the President under the said
clause.
Explanation I:- The expression “law in force” in this article shall include a law passed
or made by a Legislature or other competent authority in the territory of India before the
commencement of this Constitution and not previously repealed, notwithstanding that it or
parts of it may not be then in operation either at all or in particular areas.
Explanation II:- Any law passed or made by a Legislature or other competent
authority in the territory of India which immediately before the commencement of this
Constitution had extra-territorial effect as well as effect in the territory of India shall, subject
to any such adaptations and modifications as aforesaid, continue to have such extra-
territorial effect.
Explanation III:- Nothing in this article shall be construed as continuing any
temporary law in force beyond the date fixed for its expiration or the date on which it would
have expired if this Constitution had not come into force.
Explanation IV:- An Ordinance promulgated by the Governor of a Province under
section 88 of the Government of India Act, 1935, and in force immediately before the
commencement of this Constitution shall, unless withdrawn by the Governor of the
corresponding State earlier, cease to operate at the expiration of six weeks from the first
meeting after such commencement of the Legislative Assembly of that State functioning
under clause (1) of article 382, and nothing in this article shall be construed as continuing
any such Ordinance in force beyond the said period.
262 THE CONSTITUTION OF INDIA
(Part XXI. - Temporary, Transitional and Special Provisions)
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[372A. Power of the President to adapt laws:- (1) For the purposes of bringing the
provisions of any law in force in India or in any part thereof, immediately before the
commencement of the Constitution (Seventh Amendment) Act, 1956, into accord with the
provisions of this Constitution as amended by that Act, the President may by order2 made
before the first day of November, 1957, make such adaptations and modifications of the law,
whether by way of repeal or amendment, as may be necessary or expedient, and provide that
the law shall, as from such date as may be specified in the order, have effect subject to the
adaptations and modifications so made, and any such adaptation or modification shall not be
questioned in any court of law.
(2) Nothing in clause (1) shall be deemed to prevent a competent Legislature or other
competent authority from repealing or amending any law adapted or modified by the
President under the said clause.]
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