Section 1:
Short title.
This Act may be called the Religious Societies Act, 1880.
Local extent--.It 1*** shall extend to the whole of India except 2[the territories which, immediately
before the 1st November, 1956, were comprised in Part B States,]
but nothing herein contained shall apply to any Hindus, Muhammadans or Buddhists, or to any
persons whom the State Government may from time to time, by notification in the Official Gazette,
exclude from the operation of this Act.
Notes:
1 The words "shall come into force at once, and" omitted by Act 10 of 1914, s. 3 and the Second Schedule.
2. Subs. by the Adaptation of Laws (No. 2) Order, 1956, for "Part B States".