Section 1 — Short title, extent and commencement

1 (1) This Act may be called the United Provinces Cotton Ginning and Pressing Factories Act, 1948.

(2) It extends 1 to the whole of [Uttar Pradesh]. 2

(3) This section shall come into force 3 at once and the remaining sections on such date and in such areas as the [State Governmentic563 4 may, by notification in the official Gazette, appoint, in this behalf.