Short title, extent application and Commencement.

(1) This Act may be called the Tamil Nadu Inam Estates (Abolition and Conversion into Ryotwari) Act, 1963. (2) It extends to the whole of the State of Tamil Nadu, except- (i) the Shencottah taluk of the Tirunelveli district ; (ii) the Kanyakumari district ; and (iii) the territories specified in the Second Schedule to the Andhra Pradesh and Madras (Alteration of Boundaries) Act, 1959 (Central Act 55 of 1959). (3) It applies to all inam estates. (4) This sub-section was added by section 2 of the Tamil Nadu Inam Estates (Abolition and Conversion into Ryotwari) Amendment Act, 1969 (Tamil Nadu Act 23 of 1969). Provided that in the case of any such Pudukkottai inam estate, the settlement of which is published under sub-section (2) of section 3 of the Pudukkottai (Settlement of Inams) Act, 1955 (Tamil Nadu Act XXIII of 1955) on a date subsequent to the 15th February 1965, the rest of this Act as aforesaid shall be deemed. to have come into force in regard to such Pudukkottai inam estate on such subsequent date : Provided further that where, in regard to any Pudukkottai inam estate, the operation of the rest of this Act as aforesaid has been stayed or interrupted by order of court or Tribunal or other authority constituted under any law for the time being in force, the date from which the Government have been in uninterrupted possession of such estate shall be deemed to be the date on which the rest of this Act as aforesaid shall be deemed to have come into force.