Section 1:
Short title and extent.
(1) This Act may be called the Commercial Documents Evidence
Act, 1939.
(2) It extends to the whole of India except 1[the territories which, immediately before the1st November, 1956, were comprised in Part B States]. STATE AMENDMENT
Karnataka
Amendment of Central Act XXX of 1939.--In sub-section (2) of section 1 of the Commercial
Documents Evidence Act, 1939 (Central Act XXX of 1939), after the words and letter “in Part B States”
the words, brackets, figures and letters “other than the territories specified in clause (a) and clause (c) of
sub-section (1) of section 7 of the [States Re-organisation Act, 1956 (Central Act XXXVII of 1956)”]
shall be added.
[Vide Karnataka Act 33 of 1978, s. 7].
Notes:
1. Subs. by the A.O. (No. 3) 1956, for "Part B States".