Short title and extent

(1) This Act may be called the Chota Nagpur Tenancy Act, 1908. (2) It extends to the North Chotanagpur, the South Chotanagpur and Palamau Divisions including the areas or parts of the areas which have been constituted into a Municipality or a Notified Area Committee under the Jharkhand Municipal Act, 2002 (Bihar and Orissa Act 7 of 1922) or which are within a cantonment.