# 1 Extent
1[1. Extent.--This Act extends in the first instance 2[to the territories which, immediately before the 1st November, 1956, were comprised in the States] of Bombay, Saurashtra and Kutch, but the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, extend it to any other State 3[or part of a State] which has a sea-coast.]
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1. Ins. by s. 4, <i>ibid</i>. s.1 was rep. by Act 14 of 1870, s. 1 and the Schedule, Pt. II.
2. Subs. by the Adaptation of Laws (No. 2) Order, 1956, for "to the States".
3. Ins., <i>ibid</i>.
