law: General Clauses Act, 1897
  18. Successors
  (1) In any 12[Central Act] or Regulation made after the
  
  commencement of this Act, it shall be sufficient, for the purpose of indicating
  
  the relation of a law to the successors of any functionaries or of corporations
  
  having perpetual succession, to express its relation to the functionaries or
  
  corporations.
  (2) This section applies also to all 12[Central Acts] made after
  
  the third day of January, 1868,.and to all Regulations made on or after the
  
  fourteenth day of January, 1887.