Section 1 — Short title and extent

(1) This Act may be called the Prisoners Act, 1900;

[(2) It extends to the whole of India except [the territories which, immediately before the 1st November, 1956, were comprised in Part B States.] ***

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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]