law: Code of Criminal Procedure Act, 1973
  484.Repeal and savings.-
  (1) The Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898, (5 of 1898) is hereby
  
  repealed.
  (2) Notwithstanding such repeal,-
  (a) if, immediately before the date on which
  
  this Code comes into force, there is any appeal, application, trial, inquiry or
  
  investigation pending, then, such appeal, application, trial, inquiry or
  
  investigation shall be disposed of, continued, held or made, as the case may
  
  be, in accordance with the provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898,
  
  (5 of 1898) as in force immediately before such commencement, (hereinafter
  
  referred to as the Old Code), as if this Code had not come into force:
  Provided that every inquiry under Chapter XVIII
  
  of the Old Code, which is pending at the commencement of this Code, shall be
  
  dealt with and disposed of in accordance with the provisions of this Code;
  (b) all notifications published, proclamations
  
  issued, powers conferred, forms, prescribed, local jurisdictions defined,
  
  sentences passed and orders, rules and appointments, not being appointments as
  
  Special Magistrates, made under the Old Code and which are in force immediately
  
  before the commencement of this Code, shall be deemed, respectively, to have
  
  been published, issued, conferred, prescribed, defined, passed or made under
  
  the corresponding provisions of this Code;
  (c) any sanction accorded or consent given
  
  under the Old Code in pursuance of which no proceeding was commenced under that
  
  Code, shall be deemed to have been accorded or given under the corresponding
  
  provisions of this Code and proceedings may be commenced under this Code in
  
  pursuance of such sanction or consent;
  (d) the provisions of the Old Code shall
  
  continue to apply in relation to every prosecution against a Ruler within the
  
  meaning of article 363 of the Constitution.
  (3) Where the period prescribed for an application or other
  
  proceeding under the Old Code had expired on or before the commencement of this
  
  Code, nothing in this Code shall be construed as enabling any such application
  
  to be made or proceeding to be commenced under this Code by reason only of the
  
  fact that a longer period therefor is prescribed by this Code or provisions are
  
  made in this Code for the extension of time.