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Repeal and savings. The Bombay State Famine Relief Fund Act, 1958 [ 1958 : Bom . LXXXIII 3 of 5 BOMBAY ACT No. LXXXIII OF 1958.1 [THE BOMBAY STATE FAMINE RELIEF FUND ACT, 1958.] [9th October 1958] Adapted and modified by the Gujarat Adaptation of Laws (State and Concurrent Subjects) Order, 1960. Amended by Guj. 5 of 1960.- An Act to provide for the establishment and maintenance in the State of Bombay of a Famine Relief Fund for meeting expenditure on preventive and remedial measures connected with famine or acute scarcity conditions or on relief of distress caused by serious drought, flood or other natural calamities in the State. WHEREAS in the pre-Reorganisation State of Bombay, excluding the transfered territories, and in the Vidarbha region and in the Saurashtra area of the State, the Bombay Famine Relief Fund Act, 1936, the Central Provinces and Berar Famine Relief Fund Act, 1937 and the Saurashtra Famine Relief Fund Act, 1951 are, respectively, in force ; AND WHEREAS there is no corresponding law in force in the Hyderabad and Kutch areas of the State ; AND WHEREAS it is expedient to provide for the establishment and mainte- nance in the State of a common Fund called the Bombay State Famine Relief Fund for meeting expenditure on preventive and remedial measures connected with famine or acute scarcity conditions or on relief of distress caused by serious drought, flood or other natural calamities in any part of the State ; It is hereby enacted in the Ninth Year of the Republic of India as follows:-