law: Essential Commodities (Special Provisions) Act, 1981 
  1. Short title,
  
  commencement and duration.- 
  1.     
  
    This
  
  Act may be called the Essential Commodities (Special Provisions) Act, 1981.
  2.     
  
    It
  
  shall come into force on such date as the Central Government may, by
  
  notification in the Official Gazette, appoint and different dates may be
  
  appointed for different States.
  3.     
  
    It
  
  shall cease to have effect on the expiry of fifteen years from the date of commencement
  
  of this Act except as respects things done or omitted to be done before such
  
  cesser of operation of this Act, and section 6 of the General Clauses Act, 1897
  
  (10 of 1897), shall apply upon such cesser of operation of this Act as if it
  
  had then been repealed by a Central Act.
  4.     
  
    References
  
  in this Act to the commencement of this Act and to the continuance in force of
  
  this Act shall be construed in relation to each State as references,
  
  respectively, to the coming into force of this Act in that State and to the
  
  continuance in force of this Act in the date on which the Act shall come into
  
  force in all the States and Union territories except the Union territories of
  
  the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Arunachal Pradesh, Dadra and Nagar Haveli,
  
  Lakshadweep and Mizoram.