The Upper Burma Laws Act, 1886, 20 of 1886, (Rep., Act 13 of 1898)

Section 6. (1) Subject to the provisions of any Regulation under the Statute 33 Victoria, chapter 3, so much of

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(4) The limits of the Town of Mandalay for the purposes of this Act shall be the limits for the time being of the local area subject to the ordinary original jurisdiction of the Civil Court of Mandalay. (5) This section does not extend to the Shan States. (3) The Local Government may, from time to time, with the previous sanction of the Governor General in Council, by notification in the official Gazette, declare that any enactment which is specified in that schedule or which may hereafter be extended in exercise of any such powers as aforesaid, shall no longer be in force in Upper Burma or in any part of Upper Burma specified in the notification. (2) An enactment not specified in that schedule shall not be deemed to be or to have been in force in Upper Burma or in any part of Upper Burma unless it is expressed, by special mention of Upper Burma or a part of Upper Burma, to extend thereto, or after the commencement of this Act is extended thereto in exercise of the powers conferred by section 5 of the Scheduled Districts Act, 1874, or by any other enactment for the time being in force. 6. (1) Subject to the provisions of any Regulation under the Statute 33 Victoria, chapter 3, so much of each of the enactments specified in the second schedule to this Act as is at the commencement of this Act in force in any part of Lower Burma which is not included in a scheduled district as defined in the Scheduled Districts Act, 1874, shall be deemed to be in force in Upper Burma generally, or in the Town of Mandalay only, according as the enactment is specified in the First or Second Part of the schedule.

Source: India Code