(1) This Act may be called the Chandernagore short (Assimilation of Laws) Act, 1955. title and
(2) It shall come into force immediately on the ment.
commence.
West Ben. Chandernagore (Assimilation of Laws) Ordinance, 1954, Ord. IX of ceasing to operate.
1954.
2. In this Act,— Defini-
(a) "appointed day" means the 2nd day of October, twos.
1954;
(b) "Chandernagore" means the whole of the territory which immediately before the 9th day of June, 1952 was comprised in the Free town of Chandernagore;
(c) "law" means so much of any Act, Ordinance, Regulation, order, rule, scheme, notification, bye-law or any other instrument having the force of law as relates to matters enumerated in List II in the Seventh Schedule to the Constitution of India.
3. All laws which immediately before the appointed Extension day extend to, or are in force in, the State of West Bengal of laws to generally shall, as from that day, extend to, or, as the Chandercase may be, come into force in, Chandernagore. nagore.