Short title, extent and commencement

Preliminary

1. (I) This Act may be called ' 'The Land Records Mainrenance Act, 1895."

1. (2) I1 shall come into force only in dislricrs or pdt-ts of distriqts of which a field survey and a record of rights have been made under Chapter X of the Bengal Tenancy Act, 1885, or under any other law for the lime being in force, and to which the 'S~ate Government] may, k-rom time to ~ime, extend ir by an order published in the '[Oficicrl Gozerre] ; and thereupon this Act shall commeflce and take effe'ec~ in the dislricls or parts of dislricts named in such order on the day which shall bc in such order provided for the commencemenr thereul'.