SHORT TITLE, EXTENT AND COMMENCEMENT.

(1) This Act may be called The Electricity (Supply) Act, 1948. (2) It extends to the whole of India except the State of Jammu and Kashmir. (3) This section and Sees. 2, 3, 4, 4-A, 4-B, 4-C, 15-A, 18-A, 26-A, 28 to 34 (both inclusive), subsection (2) of Sec. 39, Sec. 42, sub-section (3) of Sec. 43 and Sees. 57, 57-A, 57-B, 58, 75-A, 76, 77, 77-A, 77-B, 77-C, 82 and 83 and the provisions of the Sixth Schedule shall come into force at once. (4) The remaining provisions of this Act shall come into force in a State on such date, not later than two years from the coming into force of sections, Schedule and Table mentioned in sub-section (3), as the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint: Provided that the Central Government may, as respects any State extend the said period of two years and in such event the remaining provisions of the Act shall come into force in that State on such date, not later than the extended period, as the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint. (5) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (4),- (a) where any provisions of this Act, to which sub-section (4) applies, is in force in any State immediately before the commencement of the Electricity (Supply) Amendment Act, 1978 (23 of 1978) that provision as amended by the Electricity (Supply) Amendment Act, 1978 (23 of 1978), shall, on and from such commencement, be in force in that State; (b) The provisions of this Act, to which sub-section (4) applies, which are not in force in any State on the commencement of the Electricity (Supply) Amendment Act, 1978, shall come into force in that State on such date as the State Government may, with the concurrence of the Central Government, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.