Section 6. Whenever any Local Government has, by notification in the official Gazette, declared the provisions

6. Whenever any Local Government has, by notification in the official Gazette, declared the provisions of this section to be in force in any frontier district or any wild tract of country within the jurisdiction of such Local Government, any person who in such district or tract of country after such notification as aforesaid commits any offence punishable under the Indian Penal Code with imprisonment for three years or upwards, may be punished with whipping in lieu of any other punishment to which he may be liable under the said Code.