Short title, extent and commencement.

(1) This Act may be called the Tamil Nadu Rinderpest Act, 1940. (2) It extends to the whole of the State of Tamil Nadu. (3) This section shall come into force at once, and the State Government may, from time to time, by notification in the Fort St. George Gazette apply all or any of the remaining provisions of this Act to the whole or any portion of the State of Tamil Nadu from such date and for such period, if any, as may be specified in the notification, and may cancel or modify any such notification.