Section 1:
Short title, extent and commencement.
(1) This Act may be called the Prize Competitions
Act, 1955.
(2) It extends to 1[the territories which, immediately before the 1st November, 1956, were
comprised in] the States of Andhra, Bombay, Madras, Orissa, Uttar Pradesh, Hyderabad, Madhya
Bharat, Patiala and East Punjab States Union and Saurashtra and all Part C States.
(3) It shall come into force on such date2
as the Central Government may, by notification in the
Official Gazette, appoint.
Notes:
1. Ins. by A. O. (No. 3), 1956.
2. 1st April, 1956, vide Notification No. S.R.O. 766, dated 31st March, 1956, Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II,
sec. 3.