Section 1 — Short title and extent.

(1) This Act may be called the Identification of Prisoners Act, 1920; and 2 [(2) It extends 3 to the whole of India except 4 [the territories which, immediately before lst November, 1956, were comprised in Part B States].]

STATE AMENDMENTS Karnataka Amendment of Central Act 33 of 1920.—In the Identification of Prisoners Act, 1920 (Central Act 33 of 1920),—

(1) in sub-section (2) of section 1, after the words and letter “Par t B States”, the following words, brackets, letters and figures shall be added, namely: — “other than the territories specified in clause (a) and clause (c) of sub -section (1) of section 7 of the States Reorganisation Act, 1956 (Central Act 37 of 1956).”; [Vide Karnataka Act 29 of 1975, s. 4].