Section 1:
Short title and extent.
(1) This Act may be called the Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897.
1[(2) It extends to the whole of India 2***] 3* * *
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Notes:
1. Subs. by the A.0. 1950.
2. The words, figures and letters "except the territories which, immediately before the 1st November, 1956, were
comprised in Part B States" omitted by Act 34 of 2020, s. 2 (w.e.f. 22-4-2020).
3. The word "and" rep. by Act 10 of 1914, s. 3 and the Second Schedule.
4. Sub-section (3) rep. by s. 3 and the Second Schedule, ibid.