Section 1:
Extent.
1[1. Extent.--This Act extends in the first instance 2[to the territories which, immediately before the
1st November, 1956, were comprised in the States] of Bombay, Saurashtra and Kutch, but the Central
Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, extend it to any other State 3[or part of a State]
which has a sea-coast.]
Notes:
1. Ins. by s. 4, ibid. s.1 was rep. by Act 14 of 1870, s. 1 and the Schedule, Pt. II.
2. Subs. by the Adaptation of Laws (No. 2) Order, 1956, for "to the States".
3. Ins., ibid.