9. (1) The Governor-General shall by order make such pro- vision as appears to him to be necessary or expedient-
(a) for bringing the provisions of this Act into effective operation ;
(b) for dividing between the new Dominions, and between the new Provinces to be constituted under this Act, the powers, rights, property,, duties and liabilities of the Governor-General in Council or, as the case may be, of the relevant Provinces which, under this Act, are to cease to exist;
(c) for making omissions from, additions to, and adaptations and modifications of, the Government of India Act, 1935, and the Orders in Council, rules and other instruments made thereunder, in their application to the separate new Dominions;
(d) for removing difficulties arising in connection with the transition to the provisions of this Act;
(e) for authorising the carrying on of the business of _the Governor-General in Council between the passing of this Act and the appointed day otherwise than in accordance with the provisions in that behalf of the Ninth Schedule to the Government of India Act, 1935;
(f) for enabling agreements to be entered into, and other acts done, on behalf of either of the new Dominions before the appointed day;
(g) for authorising the continued carrying on for the time being on behalf of the new Dominions, or on behalf of any two or more of the said new Provinces, of services and activities previously carried on on behalf of British India as a whole or on behalf of the former Provinces which those new Provinces represent;
(h) for regulating the monetary system and any matters pertaining to the Reserve Bank of India; and
(i) so far as it appears necessary or expedient in connection with any of the matters aforesaid, for varying the constitution, powers or jurisdiction of any legislature, court or other authority in the new Dominions and creating new legislatures, courts or other authorities therein.
(2) The powers conferred by this section on the Governor- General shall, in relation to their respective Provinces, be exercisable also by the Governors of the Provinces which, under this Act, are to cease to exist; and those powers shall, for the purposes of the Government of India, Act, 1935, be deemed to be matters as respects which the Governors are, under that Act, to exercise their individual judgment.
(3) This section shall be deemed to have had effect as from the third day of June, nineteen hundred and forty-seven, and any order of the Governor-General or any Governor made on or after that date as to any matter shall have effect accordingly, and any order made under this section may be made so as to be retrospective to any date not earlier than the said third day of June. Provided that no person shall be deemed to be guilty of an offence by reason of so much of any such order as makes any provision thereof retrospective to any date before the making thereof.
(4) Any orders made under this section, whether before or after the appointed day, shall have effect-
(a) up to the appointed day, in British India;
(b) on and after the appointed day, in the new Dominion or Dominions concerned; and
(c) outside British India, or, as the case may be, outside the new Dominion or Dominions concerned, to such extent, whether before, on or after the appointed day, as a law ui the Legislature of the Dominion or Dominions concerned would have on or after the appointed day, but shall, in the case of each of the Dominions, be subject to the same powers of repeal and amendment as laws of the Legislature of that Dominion.
(5) No order shall be made under this section, by the Governor of:any Province, after the appointed day, or, by the Governor- General, after the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and forty-eight, or such earlier date as may be determined, in the case of either Dominion, by any law of the Legislature of that Dominion.
(6) If it appears that a part of the Province of Assam is, on the appointed day, to become part of the new Province of East Bengal, the preceding provisions of this section shall have effect as if, under this Act, the Province of Assam was to cease to exist on the appointed day and be reconstituted on that day as a new Province.