Short title and commencement.:- (1) This Act may be called the

Orissa Opium Smoking Act, 1947.

1. (2) It extends to the whole of the Province of Orissa*.
2. (3) It shall come into force in the Nawapara Subdivision of the district of Sambalpur at once. In other areas of the Province the whole Act with the exception of section 8 shall come into force on such date as the Provincial ‘Government may, by notification appoint in this behalf. At the expiration of one year after the said date-
   • (a) section 8 shall come into force,
   • (b) section 10 shall have eifect asif the figure ‘8’ were inserted after the figure ‘7’,
   • (c) section 12 shall have effect as if the figure ‘8’ were inserted after the figure ‘7’, and
   • (d) sub-sections (1) and (2) of section 13 shall have eifect as if the words “the smoking of opium is carried on in any place or that" were inserted after the words “has reason to believe that”.