1. Short title and extent
(1)
This Act may be called the Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897.
[(2) It extends to the whole of India ***] * * * * * * * *
Amendment notes (4)
- Subs . Subs. by the A.0. 1950.
- omitted w.e.f. 22-4-2020 . The words, figures and letters "except the territories which, immediately before the 1st November, 1956, were comprised in Part B States" omitted by Act 34 of 2020, s. 2 (w.e.f. 22-4-2020).
- rep . The word "and" rep. by Act 10 of 1914, s. 3 and the Second Schedule.
- rep . Sub-section (3) rep. by s. 3 and the Second Schedule, ibid.