§ 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 4 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.