Lawgist1Title, extent and commencement
(1) This Act may be called the Prisons Act, 1894.
1[(2) It extends to the whole of India except 2[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 3[State] of Bombay 4[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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1. Subs. by the A. O. 1950, for sub-section (2).
2. Subs. by the Adaptation of Laws (No. 2) Order, 1956, for "Part B States".
3. Subs. by the A. O. 1950, for "province" which was subs. by the A O. 1948 for "presidency".
4. Ins. by the Adaptation of Laws (No. 2) Order, 1956.
5. The Civil Jails Act, 1874.
