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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. In clause (ix) omit "or the same Act as applied to Berar". For clause (b), substitute the following, namely :-- "(b) 'local authority' means a Municipal Corporation, Municipal Committee, Notified Area Committee, Town Committee, District Board, Janapada Sabha, Mandal Panchayat, Gram Sabha, Gram Panchayat, Village Panchayat, or other authority legally entitled to or entrusted by the Government, with the control or management of a municipal or local fund; and includes any authority deemed to be a local authority under any enactment." 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."