States Reorganisation Act, 1956 · Chapter VII: Apportionment of Assets and Liabilities of Certain Part A and Part B States
Section 80: Credits in certain funds
The investments in the cash balance investments account, the famine relief fund and the general fund of an existing State and the sums at the credit of an existing State in the central road fund shall pass to the successor State or, if there be two or more successor States, be divided between them according to the population ratio; and the investments in any special fund the objects of which are confined to a local area in an existing State shall pass to the successor State in which that area is included.
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