Section 1. This Act may be called "The Criminal Tribes' Act, 1871," and it shall come into force on the passing thereof

31. The Local Government may, with the previous sanction of the Governor General in Council, make rules for the making and keeping up and charge of registers made under this Part of the Act. Penalty for refusing such information. Rules for making and keeping up registers of eunuchs. 1. This Act may be called "The Criminal Tribes' Act, 1871," and it shall come into force on the passing thereof. Local extent. This section and section twenty extend to the whole of British India: the rest of this Act extends only to the territories under the governments of the Lieutenant-Governors of the North-Western Provinces and the Panjáb, respectively, and under the administration of the Chief Commissioner of Oudh.