Section 1. Short title

CHAPTER I PRELIMINARY 1. Short title .—(1) This Act may be called the Panjab District Boards Act, 1883. Extent. —(2) It shall extend only to the territories for the time being administered by the Lieutenant-Governor of the Panjab; and Commencement .—(3) It shall come into force in each district on such date as the Local Government, by notification, directs. 2 . Repeal of Act V of 1878 .—From the date on which this Act comes into force in any district, the Panjab Local Rates Act, 1878 (V of 1878), shall be repealed throughout that district. But all rates imposed, sums credited to the Local Government, and notifications published under that Act, shall, so far as may be, be deemed to have been respectively spectively imposed, credited and published under this Act.