Section 1:
Short title and extent.
(1) This Act may be called the Co-operative Societies Act, 1912; 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.]
Notes:
1. Subs. by the Adaptation of Laws (No. 2) Order, 1956, for "Part B States".