4. Excepting holders of the offices specified in Schedule…, every person who. immediately before the date of the commencement of this Constitution, was in the service of the Crown in India, including any judge of the Federal Court or of any High Court, shall, on that date, be transferred to the appropriate service of the Federation or the unit concerned and shall hold office by a tenure corresponding to his previous tenure.
[Note: Under the next succeeding clause there will be a provisional President from the commencement of the new Constitution, so that there will be no room for n Governor-General. Similarly, in the Provinces there will be no room for any Governor appointed by His Majesty. The same may be true of the holders of certain other offices. All such offices may be enumerated in a Schedule. The proposed provision applies to persons holding offices other than those mentioned in the Schedule. C/. article 77 of the transitory provisions of the Constitution of the Irish Free State, 1922, reproduced below:
“Every existing officer of the Provisional Government at the date of the coming into operation of this Constitution (not being an officer whose services have been lent by the British Government to the Provisional Government) shall on that date be transferred to and become an officer of the Irish Free State (Saorstat Eireann), and shall hold office by a tenure corresponding to his previous tenure.”]