Short title, extent, commencement and cessation

(1) This Act may be called the Maharashtra Tribal Economic Condition (Improvement) Act, 1976. (2) It extends to the whole of the State of Maharashtra. (3) (a) The provisions of this section, section 2, and sub-sections (1) and (4) of section 4 and other provisions of this Act incidental or ancillary to these provisions, shall be deemed to have come into force in all the Tribal areas in the State on the 9th day of October 1976. (b) All other provisions of this Act shall be deemed to have come into force on the 9th day of October 1976, in the first instance, in the Navapur taluka of the Dhule district and the Melghat taluka of the Amravati district. (c) The State Government may bring into force the provisions of this Act which have not come into force under clauses (a) and (b) of this sub-section in such Tribal areas and from such date as it may, by notification in the Official Gazette appoint; and different dates may be appointed for bringing into force different provisions in respect of different Tribal areas. (4) (a) Notwithstanding anything contained in clauses (b) and (c) of sub-section (3), if at any time, the State Government is satisfied that circumstances exist which render it necessary for the State Government so to do, the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, direct that all or any of the other provisions of this Act referred to in the said clauses (b) and (c) which are deemed to have come into force, or which are brought into force, in any tribal area shall cease to be in force in that Tribal area on such date as may be specified in the notification, except as respects things done or omitted to be done under the said provisions before such date. (b) Where the State Government has directed under clause (a) of this sub-section, that any such provisions shall cease to be in force in any Tribal area, if, at any subsequent time, the State Government is satisfied that there is a change in the circumstances and it is necessary so to do, the State Government may, by like notification, direct that all or any of the provisions which had ceased to be in force shall again come into force in that Tribal area on such date as may be specified in the notification.