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In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context,-- (a) "appointed day" means the date appointed under sub-section (2) of Section 1 for the coming into force of this Act; (b) "Bhopal region" means the territories which immediately before the 1st day of November, 1956, were comprised in the Part 'C State of Bhopal; (c) "Madhya Bharat region" means the territories which immediately before the 1st day of November, 1956, were comprised in the Part 'B' State of Madhya Bharat, except Sunel Tappa of Bhanpura tehsil of Mandsaur district; (d) "Mahakoshal region" means the territories comprised within the districts of Jabalpur, Sagar, Damoh, Mandla, Hoshangabad, Narsimhapur, Chhindwara, Seoni, Betul, Nimar, Raipur, Bilaspur, Durg, Bastar, Surguja, Raigarh and Balaghat; (e) "region" means the Mahakoshal region, the Madhya Bharat region, the Vindhya Pradesh region, the Bhopal region or the Sironj region; (f) "Sironj region" means the area comprised in the Sironj sub-division of the Bhilsa district on the 1st day of November, 1956; (g) "Vindhya Pradesh region" means the territories which immediately before the 1st day of November 1956, were comprised in the Part 'C' State of Vindhya Pradesh. or notified area under the Central Provinces Municipalities Act, 1922 (II of 1922), and shall, on the commencement of the Madhya Pradesh Extension of Laws Act, 1958 (23 of 1958) come into force in every local area of any other region of the State which has been or may hereafter be declared to be a municipality or a notified area under any corresponding law in force in that region. (b) The provisions of Part III of Chapter X shall be in force in any other local area in which they were in force immediately before the commencement of the Madhya Pradesh Extension of Laws Act, 1958 (23 of 1958), and Government may, from time to time, by notification in the Official Gazette, bring into force these provisions in any other local area of the State and may cancel or modify any such notification." Section 1- For sub-sections (2), (3) and (4), substitute the following, namely :- - "(2) It extends to the whole of Madhya Pradesh." (3) It shall apply to all such villages in Madhya Pradesh to which it had been applied immediately before the commencement of the Madhya Pradesh Extension of Laws Act, 1958 (23 of 1958) and may be applied to any other village on such date as the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint, and different dates may be appointed for different villages."