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 Bombay Act 2 of 1874, as amended by subsequent enactments.
Amendment notes (5)
- Subs . Subs. by the A. O. 1950, for sub-section (2).
- Subs . Subs. by the Adaptation of Laws (No. 2) Order, 1956, for "Part B States".
- Subs . Subs. by the A. O. 1950, for "province" which was subs. by the A O. 1948 for "presidency".
- Ins . Ins. by the Adaptation of Laws (No. 2) Order, 1956.
- . The Civil Jails Act, 1874.