Short title. This Act may be called the Elephants' Preservation Act, 1879; Local extent. It

extends to the territories now respectively administered by the Lieutenant-Governor of the North-Western Provinces and the Chief Commissioners of Oudh, the Central Provinces, 2* *

• • and Coorg; and the 3[State Government] may 4* * * extend it to any other local area' 6[which, immediately] before the 1st November, 1956, was not comprised in a Part B State] by notification in the Official Gazette. Commencement. So far as regards the power to make declarations and rules, it shall come into force on the passing thereof.