(1) This Act may be called the Provincial Small Cause Courts Act, 1887.

(2) It extends to the whole of India except ¹[the territories which, immediately before the 1st November, 1956, were comprised in Part B States]; and

(3) It shall come into force on the first day of July, 1887.

1. Subs. by the Adaptation of Laws (No. 2) Order, 1956, for "Part B States ".