Title and extent

(1) This Act may be called the Punjab Gram Panchayat Act, 1952. (2) It extends to the States of Punjab and Haryana and the Union Territory of Chandigarh in areas transferred from the erstwhile State of Punjab transferred to the Union territory of Himachal Pradesh under the Punjab Reorganisation Act, 1966 (Act 31 of 1966). (3) It shall come into force at once.