(1) (a) Every—
(i) State Road Transport Service commenced before the appointed date and operating on any route at such date, and
(ii) Order cancelling or curtailing any permit for transport vehicle, or attaching any new condition or altering the conditions already attached to any permit for such vehicle, and every order reducing or otherwise fixing the number of transport vehicles to be used on any route or changing the route rela ting to the permit, and every order refusing to renew any permit previously granted, made on or before the appointed date on account of the State Road Transport Service > 1 4 ---------- Y ear------- --- *«iv« D«V*> running and operating or commencing to rub and operate on the route to which the permit related, shall be and is ' hereby made and declared to be valid in law, any provision in the Motor Vehicles Act, 1939 (IV of 1939) or any other law notwithstanding, and (/>) The routes as specified in the Schedule or any other route on which the State Road Transport Service was operating on the appointed date and every such service shall for purposes of this Act, be deemed as the case may be to be a route specified in a notification under section 3, and the service operating under a scheme duly prepared and published under and in accordance with sections 4 and 5, provided that the State Government publishes in the official Gazette within thirty days of the commencement of this Act a scheme as to the aforesaid road transport service providing as far as may be, for all or any of the matters specified in sub-section (2) of section 4 and the scheme so published shall be and be deemed to be the scheme duly confirmed and published under sub section (3) of section 5 and the route to which it relates shall be called a notified route and the provisions of sections 6 and 7 shall be applicable thereto.
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(2) Any application for granting a permit for a transport vehicle made whether before or after the commencement of this Act in respect of a route, which is or is deemed to be a notified route, shall notwithstanding anything in the Motor Vehicles Act, 1939 (IV of 1939), or any judgment, decree or order of a Court, be decided in accordance with the provisions of this Act as if the Act had been in force at all material dates.