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If on the date of appointment of a Commissioner of Police for any area, any legal proceedings are pending to which a District Superintendent or Police is a party or, where any powers and duties of a District Magistrate are conferred in substitution on a Commissioner of Police by virtue of this Act or any enactment in the Schedule, a District Magistrate for that area is a party, the Commissioner of Police shall be substituted for the District Superintendent of Police or, as the case may be, for the District Magistrate in the said proceedings. Existing appointments, notifications, etc., by District Superintendent of Police and, where District Magistrate’s powers are conferred in substitution on Commissioner of Police, by District Magistrate, to have been made by Commissioner of Police. Construction of references to District Superintendent of Police in existing laws. Construction of references to District Superintendent of Police in existing laws. Pending proceedings before District Superintendent of Police and District Magistrate. Pending legal proceedings. Bombay Highways Act, 1955 [1955 : Bom.LV