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State Government may prescribe form of returns.—The 1[State Government] may direct the submission of such returns by the Inspector-General and other police-officers as to such 1[State Government] shall seem proper, and may prescribe the form in which such returns shall made. 2[46.Scope of Act.—(1) This Act shall not by its own operation take effect in any 3presidency, 4[State] or place. But the 5[State Government] by an order to be published in the Official Gazette may extend the whole or any part of this Act to any presidency, 4[State] or place, and the whole or such portion of this Act as shall be specified in such order shall thereupon take effect in such presidency, 4[State] or place.