Section 1:
Short title, extent and commencement.
(1) This Act may be called the Indian Criminal Law Amendment Act,
1908.
1[(2) It extends to the whole of India except the territories which, immediately before the 1st
November, 1956, were comprised in Part B States.
(3) It applies to Assam and to the territories which, immediately before the 1st November,
1956, were comprised in the State of West Bengal; but the State Government of any State may,
at any time, by notification2
in the Official Gazette, bring the whole or any part thereof into
force in the territories under its administration to which this Act extends.]
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* * * * * STATE AMENDMENT
Maharashtra.--
Extension of Act XIV of 1908 as Amended to Hyderabad and Saurashtra areas of
Bombay State.--The principal Act of 1908, as amended by this Act, is hereby extended to,
and shall in virtue of such extension be in force in, the Hyderabad and Saurashtra area of the
Bombay State.
[Vide Maharashtra Act XXIV of 1959, s. 7]
Amendment of section 1 of Act XIV of 1908.--In the Indian Criminal Law Amendment
Act, 1908, in its application to the State of Bombay, in section 1,--
(1) in sub-section (2), after the words and letter "comprised in Part B States" the
words", other than the Hyderabad and Saurashtra area of the State of Bombay" shall be
inserted;
(2) to sub-section (3), the following proviso shall be added, namely:--
"Provided that on the date of the commencement of the Criminal Law Amendment
(Bombay Amendment and Extension) Act, 1959, the whole of this Act shall come into force in that part of the State of Bombay in which it was not in force immediately
before such date."
[Vide Bombay Act XXIV of 1959, s. 8]
Notes:
1. Subs. by the Adaptation of Laws (No. 2) Order, 1956, for sub-section (2).
2. The Act has been extended under this provision to
Bombay Presidency, see Gazette of India, Extraordinary, dated 4th January, 1910:
Madras Presidency, the U.P., the Punjab, and the C.P., see ibid., dated 13th January, 1910 and ibid., 1910,
Pt. I,p. 95;
Punjab, see Punjab Gazette, Extraordinary, dated 23rd June, 1930;
The State of Delhi see Gazette of India, Extraordinary, dated 9th December, 1920; Ajmer-Merwara, see
Gazette of India, 1930, Pt. II-A, p. 515;
Coorg, see Coorg Gazette, Extraordinary, dated 11th January, 1932.
It has been extended to Berar by the Berar Laws Act, 1941 (4 of 1941) and has also been declared to be in
force in the Sonthal Parganas by notification under the Sonthal Parganas Settlement Regulation, 1872 (3 of
1872), s. 3 (3) (a), see Calcutta Gazette, 1909, Pt. I, p. 649; in the Khondmals District, by the Khondmals
Laws Regulation, 1936 (4 of 1936), s. 3 and Sch.; and the Angul District by the Angul Laws Regulation.
1936 (5 of 1936), s. and the Schedule.
The Act has also been extended to the new Provinces and merged States by the Merged States (Laws)
Act. 1949 (59 of 1949); to the States of Manipur, Tripura and Vindhya Pradesh by the Union Territories
(Laws) Act, 1950 (30 of 1950); and to Pondicherry on 1-10-1963; vide Reg. 7 of 1963, s. 3 and Sch. I.
3. Sub-section (3) rep. by Act 5 of 1922, s. 3.