1. [Interpretation clause.]. Rep. by the A.O. 1937.
2. Power to extend Act 5 of 1857. —The 2
[Central Government] may, by notification in the
Official Gazette, extend the said Act No. V of 1857, to any place 3
[in 4
[the territories which,
immediately before the 1st November, 1956, were comprised in Part A States and Part C states] ]
other than Calcutta and its environs: Provided that, in every place to which the said Act shall be so
extended, section 3 of the same Act shall be read as if for the words ‘Town of Calcutta’, the name
of the place to which the said act shall be so extended were substituted: section 7 of the same Act
shall be read as if for the words and figures ‘Act XIV of 1856’, the following words were substituted;
(that is to say) ‘any law for the time being in force to provide for the conservancy and improvement
of such place:’ Section 22 of the said Act shall be read, as if after the words ‘Joint Stock Companies’
Act, 1856’ the followings words were inserted; (that is to say) ‘the Indian Companies’ Act, 1866, or
any other Statute or Act for the time being in force relating to Joint Stock Companies’ ; and as if for
the expression ‘Supreme Court of Judicature at Fort William’, the name of the highest Civil Court of
appeal in such place were substituted; and as if for the expression ‘the territories of the East India
Company’, the expression the States 5
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