law: 1. ShortTitle, extent and commencement.
  (1) This Act may be called the Provincial Small Cause Courts Act, 1887.
  (2) It extends to the whole of India except 2 [the territories which, immediately before the 1st November, 1956, were comprised in Part B States]; and
  (3) It shall come into force on the first day of July, 1887.