State control over applicability of Central Acts in Mizoram preserves Mizo customary law and land rules unless assembly consents. Article 371G bars specified Central Acts from applying in Mizoram-covering religious and social practices, Mizo customary law and procedure, administration of civil and criminal justice according to Mizo customary law, and ownership and transfer of land-unless the State Legislative Assembly by resolution decides otherwise; a proviso preserves Central Acts already in force in the Union territory of Mizoram immediately before the Fifty-third Amendment, and the Assembly must have not less than forty members.