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Notwithstanding anything contained in this Act or Grant of in the Motor Vehicles Act or in any other law for the time temporary being in force, any stage carriage operator or contract permit to carriage operator running any stage carriage or contract OPerLtor. carriage in this State shall be entitled to obtain a tempo- rary permit under the Motor Vehicles Act in respect of any stage carriage or contract carriage liable to be acquired under this Act. Such temporary permit shall be for a period of four months in the filst instance which may there- after be extended for further periods of four months at a time until the stage carriage or contract carriage is trans- ferred to the corporation or company or the State Trans- port Department of the Government referred to in section 20 : Provided that nothing contained in this section shall entitle any stage carriage operator or contract carriage operator to obtain any temporary permit in respect of any area or route or portion thereof specified in a scheme published at any time (whether before, on or after the 14th January 1973) under section 68-C of the Motor Vehicles Act.