1. Short title. — This Act may be called the Religious Societies Act, 1880. Local extent. — It shall extend to the whole of India except the territories which, immediately before the 1st November, 1956, were comprised in Part B State. But nothing herein contained shall apply to any Hindus, Mohammadans or Buddhists, or to any persons whom the State Government may from time to time, by notification in the Official Gazette, exclude from the operation of this Act. State Amendment Meghalaya.- In section 1, for the second paragraph, substitute the following paragraph namely:- “it extends to whole of Meghalaya”
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