Short title, extent and commencement

(1) This Act may be cited as the Gujarat Prohibition Act, 1949. (2) It extends to the whole of the State of Gujarat. (3) It shall come into force in the area comprising the Pre-Reorganisation State of Bombay on such date as the State Government may by notification in the Official Gazette specify. In those areas of the State to which it is extended by the Bombay Prohibition (Extension and Amendment) Act, 1959, it shall come into force on such other date as that Government may, by like notification, appoint. (4) On the commencement of this Act in the manner provided in sub-section (3), in any area to which this Act is extended by the Bombay Prohibition (Extension and Amendment) Act, 1959, all rules, regulations, orders and notifications made or issued or deemed to be made or issued under this Act and in force in the pre-Reorganisation State of Bombay excluding the transferred territories immediately before such commencement, shall also extend to, and be in force in, that area.