Section 1. Short title and extent.
(1) This Act may be called the Prisoners Act, 1900;
1[(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.] 3***
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STATE AMENDMENT
Maharashtra.--
Amendment of section 1 of Act III of 1900.--In the Prisoners Act, 1900, in the application to the State of Bombay, in sub-section (2) of section 1, after the words and letter "comprised in Part B States" the words "other than the Hyderabad and Saurashtra areas of the State of Bombay" shall be added.
[Vide Bombay Act XV of 1959, s. 4]
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