(1) The Delhi Agricultural Marketing (Regulation) Act, 1976 (87 of 1976) (hereinafter referred to as the said Act) is hereby repealed.
Provided that such repeal shall not effect the previous operation of the enactment aforesaid and anything done or any action taken (including any appointment, delegation or declaration made, notification, order, rule, regulation direction or notice issued, bye-law framed, marketing committee established licenses granted, fees levied and collected, instruments executed, any fund established or constituted) by or under the provisions of the said Act shall in so ar it is not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, be deemed to have been done or taken under the corresponding provisions of this Act, and shall continue in force unless and until superseded by anything done or any action taken under this Act.
(2) Any area or place declared to be a market area or any place or market declared to be a market under the enactment so repealed shall, on the commencement of this Act, be deemed to be the market area or market declared under this Act, the Marketing Committee constituted for the said market area and functioning immediately prior to such commencement shall be deemed, notwithstanding anything contained in this Act, to be the Marketing Committee constituted under this Act for such market area, and where it is so declared or notified, also for the agricultural produce specified in the declaration or notification; and all the members of such Marketing Committee shall be deemed to be members nominated by the Government under sub-section (2) of section 36.
(3) Any reference to the enactment repealed as aforesaid or to any provision thereof or to any officer, authority or person entrusted with any functions there-under, in any law for the time being in force or any instrument or document, shall be construed, where necessary, as a reference to the corresponding provision of this Act or to the corresponding officer, authority or person functioning under this Act, and the corresponding officer, authority or person, as the case may be, shall have under such law, instrument or document.
(4) The mention of particular matters in this section shall not effect the general application to this Act of section 6 of the General Clauses Act, 1897 (10 of 1897) of if the Delhi Agricultural Produce Marketing (Regulation) Act, 1976 (87 of 1976) had been repealed by this Act.