The Prisoners (Bombay Amendment) Act, 1947

1. (1) This Act may be called the Prisoners (Bombay Extension and Amendment) Act, 1958.
2. (2) It shall come into force on such date as the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.

The Prisoners Act, 1900, as in force immediately before the commencement of this Act in the pre-Reorganisation State of Bombay (excluding the transferred territories), is hereby extended to, and shall by virtue of such extension be in force also in the Hyderabad and Saurashtra areas of the State of Bombay; in consequence whereof the laws corresponding thereto, that is to say, the Hyderabad Prisoners Act, 1954, in its application to the Hyderabad area of the State, and the Prisoners Act, 1900, as adapted and applied to the Saurashtra area of the State by the Saurashtra (Application of Central and Bombay Acts) Ordinance, 1948, shall both stand repealed.

The provisions of sections 2 to 10 (both inclusive) of the Prisoners (Bombay Amendment) Act, 1949, which amend the Prisoners Act, 1900, in its application to the pre-Reorganisation State of Bombay, are hereby extended to, and shall be in force also in the Kutch area and the Vidarbha region of the Bombay State; and the Prisoners Act, 1900, shall be deemed to be amended accordingly also in relation to that area and region of the State.

In the Prisoners Act, 1900, in its application to the State of Bombay, in sub-section

1. (2) of section 1, after the words and letter "comprised in Part B States" the words "other than the Hyderabad and Saurashtra areas of the State of Bombay" shall be added.

The repeal, by virtue of section 2 of this Act, of the Hyderabad Prisoners Act, 1954, and of the Prisoners Act, 1900, as adapted and applied to the Saurashtra area of the State, shall not affect—

1. (a) the previous operation of any of the Acts so repealed; or
2. (b) any right, privilege, obligation or liability acquired or accrued or incurred under any of the Acts so repealed: Provided that anything done or any action taken under any of the Acts so repealed, shall be deemed to have been done or taken under the corresponding provisions of the Prisoners Act, 1900, as extended and amended by this Act, and shall continue to have effect accordingly, unless and until it is superseded by anything done or any action taken under that Act as extended and amended by this Act.