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  1. been done or taken under the corresponding law extended to, and in force in, that enclave as from the appointed day.
    Explanation.β€”In this Article, "law" includes any Act, Ordinance or Regulation and any notification, order, scheme, rule, form and bye-law issued, made or prescribed under any Act, Ordinance or Regulation.
    1. The Government of each of the absorbing Provinces shall, by order notified in the official Gazette, provide for the administration of the enclaves included in the Province, either by constituting them or any part of them into one or more new districts, or by making them or any part of them part of one or more existing districts, or partly by one and partly by the other of the said methods, and may make such further provision as appears to it to be necessary or expedient for removing the difficulties arising in connection with the absorption of the enclaves in the Province.
    2. Any order made under this Article may be made so as to be retrospective to any date not earlier than the appointed day.
    3. Any order made under this Article shall be subject to the same powers of repeal and amendment as laws of the Legislature of that Province.
    4. No order shall be made under this Article after the expiration of six months from the appointed day.

ANNEXURE

Agreement made this twenty-third day of January 1950 between the Governor-General of India and the Nizam of Hyderabad.

Whereas certain small areas forming part of the State of Hyderabad are surrounded by the territories of the Dominion of India and certain small areas forming part of the Dominion of India are surrounded by the territories of Hyderabad;

And whereas it is in the best interests of the people of the said areas that mutual exchange of these enclaves should be effected;

It is hereby agreed as follows:β€”

Article I

In this Agreement,β€”

(a) "appointed day" means the twenty-fifth day of January, 1950;