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This Act may be called "The Indian Forest Act, 1878:" Commencement.-- It shall come into force at once in the territories respectively administered by the Governor of Bombay in Council, the Lieutenant-Governors of the Lower Provinces, the North-Western Provinces and the Panjab (except the District of Hazara), and the Chief Commissioners of Oudh, the Central Provinces and Assam. Extension.-- And any other Local Government may from time to time, with the previous sanction of the Governor General in Council, extend, by notification in the local official Gazette, this Act to all or any of the territories for the time being under its administration. Repeal of enactments.-- On and from the date on which this Act conies into force in any of the said territories, the enactments mentioned in the schedule hereto annexed shall be repealed in such territories. But all rules made under or validated by any of the said enactments and in force at the date of such repeal shall, so far as they are consistent with this Act, be deemed to have been made and published hereunder.