State Act

The Gujarat Home Guards Act, 1947

1. (1) This Act may be called the 2a[Gujarat] Home Guards Act, 1947. 3[(2) It extends to the whole of the 4[ State of Gujarat ]. (3) It shall come into force at once in the area of Greater Bombay and the area comprising limits of the municipal borough and the cantonment of Ahmedabad. 5[ With effect from the date of commencement of the Bombay Home Guards (Extension and Amendment) Act, 1958]; it shall come into force in the whole of the Saurashtra area of the 6[State of Bombay] and those areas of the Vidarbha region in which the Central Provinces and Berar Home Guards Act, 1947 was immediately before such date, in force ]. The 7[ State ] Government may by notification in the Official Gazette direct that it shall come into force in any other area 8[ in the State of Gujarat ] on such date as may be specified in such notification.