Section 1:
Title and extent.
1 [1. Title and extent.--(1) This Act may be called the Cattle-trespass Act, 1871; and
(2) It extends to the whole of India except 2[the territories which, immediately before the 1st
November, 1956, were comprised in Part B States], and the presidency-towns and such local areas as the
State Government, by notification in the Official Gazette, may from time to time exclude from its
operation.
3[* * * * *] STATE AMENDMENT
Maharashtra.-- Amendment of section 1 of Act 1 of 1871.--In section 1 of the Cattle-trespass Act, 1871, in its
application to the State I of Bombay (hereinafter referred to as the "principal Act"), to sub-section (2) the
1871, following proviso shall be added, namely:--
"provided that on the commencement of the Cattle-trespass (Bombay Extension and Amendment)
Act, 1959 (Bom. XIII of 1959), it shall extend to those areas in which the Hyderabad, Cattle Trespass
Act, or as the case may be the Cattle-trespass Act, 1871 (Hyd. Act V of 1837, 1 of 1871), as modified and
applied to the Saurashtra area of the State of Bombay was in force immediately before such
commencement."
[Vide Bombay Act XIII of 1959, s. 3]
Notes:
1. Subs. by Act 1 of 1891, s. 1, for section 1.
2. Subs. by the Adaptation of Laws (No. 2) Order, 1956, for "Part B States".
3. Sub-section (3) rep. by Act 10 of 1914, s. 3 and the Second Schedule.