1. Short title.—This Act may be called the Northern India Ferries Act, 1878.
Local extent.—3
[It extends only to Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, the Central Provinces, Assam, Delhi and
Ajmer.]
Commencement.—It shall come into force in each of the said territories on such date as the State
Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, fix in this behalf.
2. [Repeal].—Rep. by the Repealing Act, 1938 (1 of 1938), s. 2 and the Schedule.
3. Interpretation-clause.—In this Act the word “ferry” includes also a bridge of boats, pontoons or
rafts, a swing-bridge, a flying-bridge and a temporary bridge, and the approaches to, and landing-places
of, a ferry 4
[and “Punjab” and “Ajmer” mean the territories which, immediately before the 1st November,
1956, were comprised in the States of Punjab and Ajmer respectively].