Short title, commencement and duration.

(1) This Act may be called the Maharashtra Special Provision for Payment of Stamp Duty Act, 1974. (2) It shall be deemed to have come into force on the 28th June 1974. (3) It shall cease to have effect on such date as the State Government may, by notification in the Officiai Gazette, appoint; and the provisions of section 7 of the Bombay General Clauses Act, 1904 shall apply upon this Act ceasing to be in force as if it had then been repealed by a Maharashtra Act.