Short title, extent and commencement

(1) This Act may be called the Bombay Police Act, 1951. (2) It extends to the whole of the State of Maharashtra. (3) It shall come into force in the pre-Re-organisation State of Bombay on such date as the State Government may, by notification in the official Gazette, specify in this behalf. and in that part of the State to which it is extended by the Bombay Police (Extension and Amendment) Act, 1959 (Bombay XXXIV of 1959), it shall come into force on such other date as that Government may, by like notification. specify).