Section 118. References in laws and documents

Reference in any general,
  special or local law, rule, regulation or public document to an existing
  article, section, subdivision or other  provision  of  article  four  or
  article  five of the civil service law, as in force immediately prior to
  July first,  nineteen  hundred  forty-eight,  or  July  first,  nineteen
  hundred  fifty-six,  shall  be  deemed  and  construed  to  refer to the
  corresponding section, subdivision or other provision of  this  article,
  as  added  by  chapter  eight  hundred forty-one of the laws of nineteen
  hundred forty-seven,  or  as  amended  or  supplemented  thereafter,  or
  amended by this act, as the case may be.