Section 2: Cesser of operation of certain enactments and saving

(1) On and from the date on which a Commissionerate is created under Section 4 in respect of any area, any enactment in force in that area which is inconsistent with, or a repetition of, the provisions of this Act shall cease to be in force in such area:

Provided that–

(a) all rules prescribed, appointments made, powers conferred, orders made or passed, directions and certificates issued, consent, permit, permission or licences given, summons or warrants issued or served, persons arrested or detained or discharged on bail or bond, search warrants issued, bonds forfeited, penalty incurred under any such enactment shall, so far as they are consistent with this Act, be deemed to have been prescribed, made, conferred, passed, issued, given, served, arrested, detained, discharged, forfeited or incurred, as the case may be, under this Act; and * Pblished vide Orissa Gazette Ext. No. 1949 dated 15.10.2007 The Odisha Gazette EXTRAORDINARY PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY No. 1949 Dated 15 October, 2007 2

(b) all references, in any enactment to any of the provisions of the enactments so ceasing to be in force, shall in relation to that area be construed as references to the corresponding provisions of this Act.

(2) The cesser of operation of any enactment in any area under sub­section

(1) shall not affect–

(a) the validity, invalidity, effect or consequence of anything done or suffered to be done thereunder in such area before the date of such cesser;

(b) any right, privilege, obligation or liability already acquired, accrued or incurred before such date;

(c) any penalty, forfeiture or punishment incurred or inflicted in respect of any act before such date;

(d) any investigation, legal proceeding or remedy in respect of such right, privilege, obligation, liability, penalty, forfeiture or punishment;

or

(e) any legal proceedings pending in any court or before any officer on such date or anything done or suffered to be done in the course of such proceedings, and any such proceedings or any appeal or revisional proceedings arising out of such proceedings shall be instituted, continued or disposed of, as the case may be, as if this Act had not been enacted.