Section 1 — Title, extent and commencement.

(1) This Act may be called the Prisons Act, 1894. (2) It extends to the whole of India except 4[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 5 [State] of Bombay 6 [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 7Bombay Act 2 of 1874, as amended by subsequent enactments.