3. (1) The State Laws specified in the second column of [the first Schedule] shall, as from the date of commencement of this Act, extend to the transferred territories subject to the modifications specified in the third column thereof and all appointments, orders or statutory instruments made or issued thereunder shall, so far as they are not inconsistent with the said modifications, extend, mutatismutandis to the transferred territories and shall, in such modified form, continue in force until repealed or amended by the competent Legislature or other competent authority.
(2) The Uttar Pradesh Zamindari Abolition and Land Reforms Act, 1950 as extended by notification no. 10/Rajaswa-1/1-6—(1)-72, dated March 17, 1972, shall continue in force and be deemed always to have continued in force (with the modifications specified in that notification) in the transferred territories until repealed or amended by the Uttar Pradesh State Legislature.
(3) All other State laws which immediately before the date of commencement of this Act, extend to, or are not in force in, the transferred territories shall, as from such date, extend to or, as the case may be, come into force in, the transferred territories and continue in force therein until repealed or amended by the competent Legislature or other competent authority.
(4) All Bihar laws which immediately before the date of commencement of this Act, are in force in the whole or any part of the transferred territories shall, with effect from such date, stand repealed in respect of their operation in such territories and the provisions of section 6 and 24 of the Uttar Pradesh General Clauses Act, 1904 shall apply as if those laws were repealed and re-enacted by the corresponding laws extended to, or brought into force, into the transferred territories by virtue of sub-section (1) and (3).