Section 4. The word "States" omitted., ibid

4. The word "States" omitted., ibid . *. Vide notification No. S.O. 3912(E), dated 30th October, 2019, this Act is made applicable to the Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir and the Union territory of Ladakh. THE FOURTH SCHEDULE [ See section 74 (1)] I. MODIFIED FORM OF SECTION 3 OF THE UNION DUTIES OF EXCISE (DISTRIBUTION) ACT, 1953 4. (1) The liability in respect of the pension of any officer serving immediately before the appointed day in connection with the affairs of an existing State and retiring on or after that day, shall be that of the successor State granting the pension; but the portion of the pension attributable to the service of any such officer before the appointed day in connection with the affairs of that existing State shall, if there be two or more successor States, be allocated between them in the population ratio, and the Government granting the pension shall be entitled to receive from each of the other successor States its share of this liability. (2) If any such officer was serving after the appointed day in connection with the affairs of more than one successor State, the successor State or States other than the one granting the pension shall reimburse to the Government by which the pension is granted an amount which bears to the portion of the pension attributable to his service after the appointed day the same ratio as the period of his qualifying service after the appointed day under that successor State bears to the total qualifying service of such officer after the appointed day reckoned for the purposes of pension. (3) In reckoning the said total qualifying service, any service of such officer before the appointed day in connection with the affairs of the Union under the administrative control of the Lieutenant-Governor or Chief Commissioner in any of the existing States of Ajmer, Bhopal, Coorg, Kutch and Vindhya Pradesh shall be added as if the said service had been service after the appointed day in connection with the affairs of the successor State to that existing State. 4. Transfer of territory from Travancore-Cochin to Madras .―As from the appointed day, there shall be added to the State of Madras the territories comprised in the Agastheeswaram, Thovala, Kalkulam and Vilavancode taluks of Trivandrum district and the Shencottah taluk of Quilon district; and thereupon— (a) the said territories shall cease to form part of the existing State of Travancore-Cochin; (b) the territories comprised in the Agastheeswaram, Thovala, Kalkulam and Vilavancode taluks shall form a separate district to be known as Kanya Kumari district in the State of Madras; and (c) the territories comprised in the Shencottah taluk shall be included in, and become part of, Tirunelveli district in the State of Madras.