Section 1: Short title

This Act may be called the Indian Easements Act, 1882.

Local extent.—It extends1 to the territories respectively administered by the Governor of Madras in Council and the Chief Commissioners of the Central Provinces and Coorg;

Commencement.—and it shall come into force on the first day of July, 1882.

State amendments to this section

Karnataka

Amendment of Central Act V of 1882.—In section 1 of the Indian Easements Act, 1882 (Central Act V of 1882) for the entry under the heading "Local extent", the following entry shall be substituted, namely:—

"It extends to the whole of the State of Karnataka".

[Vide Karnataka Act 33 of 1978, s. 6].

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