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Section 1: Short title, extent and commencement.

The Maharashtra Home Guards Act.State Act of Maharashtra · Act 3 of 1947

(1) This Act may be called [The Maharashtra Home Guards Act.]

[(2) It extends to the whole of the State of Bombay.]

(3) It shall come into force at once in the area of Greater Bombay and the area comprising limits of the municipal borough and the cantonment of Ahmedabad. [With effect from the date of commencement of the Bombay Home Guards (Extension and Amendment) Act, 1958 (Bom. LXXV of 1958), it shall come into force in the whole of the Saurashtra area of the State of Bombay and those areas of the Vidarbha region in which the Central Provinces and Berar Home Guards Act, 1947 (C. P. and Berar XV of 1947) was, immediately before such date, in force.] The [State] Government may by notification in the Official Gazette direct that it shall come into force in any other area on such date as may be specified in such notification.

Where this provision sits

ActThe Maharashtra Home Guards Act.
Section1
Marginal noteShort title, extent and commencement.
JurisdictionState of Maharashtra
StatusIn force as published by the source

How this provision has been amended

Taken from the footnotes printed with the provision by the source. Where a footnote names the amending instrument, it is quoted as printed.

  • other, Mah. 24 of 2012. The short title was amended by Mah. 24 of 2012, Schedule, Entry No. 24, w.e.f. 1-5-1960.
  • substituted, Bom. 75 of 1958. This sub-section was substituted for the original by Bom. 75 of 1958, s. 4(1).
  • inserted, Bom. 75 of 1958. This portion was inserted by Bom. 75 of 1958, s. 4(2).
  • substituted. This word was substituted for the word "Provincial" by the Adaptation of Laws Order, 1950.

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