Section 1. _

1. (1) This Act may be called the Shan States Act, 1888 ; and, (2) Notmithstanding anything in section 8, subsection (2), of the Upper Burma Laws Act, 1886, it xx of 1886. shall come into force throu~hou t he Shan States on such day as the Local ~ov&rnent, by notification in the official Gazette, appoints in this behalf. 2. In this Act- Definitions. (1) " Shan State " means a territory for the time being notified under sub-section (3) of section 8 of the Upper Burma Laws Act, 1886, as a Shan State for xx of 1886. the purposes of that section and sections 6 and 7 of that Act : and (2) c c chief" includes a person temporarily administering such a State.