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1) This Act may be called the Prisoners Act, 1900; 2 [(2) It extends to the whole of India except 3[the territories which, immediately before the 1st November, 1956, were comprised in Part B States.] 4*** 4 * * * * *
Prisoners Act, 1900 Section 1
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