Section 8. (1) The Local Government, with the previous sanction of the Governor General in Council, may, by not

8. (1) The Local Government, with the previous sanction of the Governor General in Council, may, by notification in the official Gazette, from time to time extend to all or any of the Shan States any enactment which is in force in any part of Upper Burma at the date of the extension, and at any time withdraw all or any of those States from the operation of any enactment so extended. (2) Unless and until extended under sub-section (1), an Act of the Governor General in Council shall not be in force in any Shan State. (3) The Local Government, with the previous sanction of the Governor General in Council, may from time to time, by notification in the official Gazette, declare what territories constitute the Shan States for the purposes of this and the two last foregoing sections.