(1) The police force functioning in the City of Tiruppur immediately before the appointed day (hereinafter in this section referred to as the existing police force) shall, on the appointed day, be deemed to be the police force constituted for the City of Tiruppur under the City Police Act as extended by this Act and every member of the existing police force holding the office mentioned in column (1) of the Schedule immediately before the appointed day shall be deemed to be appointed, on such appointed day, to the office mentioned in the corresponding entry in column (2) of that Schedule.
(2) All proceedings (including proceedings by way of investigations) pending before any police officer of the existing police force immediately before the appointed day shall, on the appointed day, be deemed to be proceedings pending before him in his capacity as the holder of the office to which he is deemed to be appointed under sub-section (1) and shall be dealt with accordingly.
(3) Where any power or function which may be exercised or discharged under any law by a District Magistrate or an Executive Magistrate immediately before the appointed day has been conferred on the Commissioner of Police or any other police officer by or under the City Police Act as extended, all proceedings in relation to, or arising from, the exercise of such power or the discharge of such function pending immediately before such conferment before the District Magistrate, or Executive Magistrate, as the case may be, shall on the conferment of such power or function, on the Commissioner of Police or other police officer, stand transferred to the Commissioner of Police for the City of Tiruppur or other Police Officer, as the case may be, and the officer to whom such proceedings stand so transferred shall either proceed de novo or from the stage of such transfer.