(1) The Punjab Courts Act, 1918 (6 of 1918) as in force in the areas added to Himachal Pradesh under section 5 of the Punjab Re-organisation Act, 1966 (31 of 1966) and the Himachal Pradesh (Courts) Order, 1948 as in force in the areas comprised in Himachal Pradesh immediately before 1 st November, 1966 are hereby repealed:
(a) Provided that anything done or any action taken, courts constituted, notifications issued, rules made, powers conferred, delegations and appointments made under the said Act or the said Order shall be deemed to have been done, taken, constituted, issued and conferred under the corresponding provision of this Act;
(b) Provided further that in every enactment now in force and in every appointment order, order, rule, bye-law, notification or form made or issued thereunder, all references to the said Act, or the said Order shall be construed as referring to this Act.
(2) For the removal of doubts, it is hereby declared that all suits, appeals, revisions, applications, reviews, executions and other proceeding whatsoever pending in any of the Courts established under the Act, or the order repealed under sub-section (1) shall be continued and concluded in the same Court as if the said Court had been duly established under this Act.
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