1. Short title, commencement and duration.

(1) This Act may be called the Maharashtra Special Provision for Payment of Court-fees Act, 1976. (2) It shall come into force on such date as the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint. (3) It shall remain in force for a period of two years commencing on the date on which this Act is brought into force under sub-section (2) and shall expire ; and the provisions of section 7 of the Bombay General Clauses Act, 1904, shall apply upon expiry of this Act as if it had then been repealed by a Maharashtra Act.