Prisons Act, 1894 · Chapter I: Preliminary
Section 1: Title, extent and commencement
(1) This Act may be called the Prisons Act, 1894.
[(2) It extends to the whole of India except [the territories which, immediately before the 1st November, 1956, were comprised in Part B States].]"
(3) It shall come into force on the first day of July, 1894.
(4) Nothing in this Act shall apply to civil jails in the [State] of Bombay [as it existed immediately before the 1st November, 1956] outside the city of Bombay, and those jails shall continue to be administered under the provisions of sections 9 and 16 (both inclusive) of 5Bombay Act 2 of 1874, as amended by subsequent enactments.
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