Section 2: Power to extend Act.

The Public Gambling Act, 1867Central Act · Act 3 of 1867

[Sections 13 and 17] of this Act shall extend to the whole of the [said States] and it shall be competent to the State Government whenever it may think fit, to extend, by a notification to be published in three successive numbers of the Official Gazette, all or any of the remaining sections of this Act to any city, town, suburb, railway-station, house and place being not more than three miles distant from any part of such station-house within the [States], and in such notification to define, for the purposes of this Act, the limits of such city, town, suburb or station-house, and from time to time to alter the limits so defined.

From the date of any such extension, so much of any rule having the force of law which shall be in operation in the territories to which such extension shall have been made, as shall be inconsistent with or repugnant to any section so extended, shall cease to have effect in such territories.

Where this provision sits

Act	The Public Gambling Act, 1867
Section	2
Marginal note	Power to extend Act.
Jurisdiction	Central
Status	In force as published by the source

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

substituted, Act 12 of 1891. . Subs. by Act 12 of 1891, s. 2 and the Second Schedule, for sections 13, 17 and 18,
substituted. . Subs. by the A.O. 1950, for "said Provinces".
substituted. . Subs., ibid., for "Provinces" which had been subs. by the A.O. 1948, for "territories subject to its govt. or administration".

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