Section 1:
Short title, extent and application.
(1) This Act may be called the Explosive Substances
Act, 1908.
1
[(2) It extends to the whole of India 2
*** and applies also to citizens of India 3
[outside India].]
Notes:
1. Subs. by the A.O. 1950, for sub-section (2).
2. The words and letter "except Part B States" omitted by Act 3 of 1951, s. 3 and the Schedule.
3. Subs. by s. 3 and the Schedule, ibid., for "wherever they may be".