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(1) This act may be called the Kerala Headload Workers Act, 1978. (2) It extends to the whole of the State of Kerala. (3) It shall come into force on such date as the Government may, by notification in the Gazette, appoint, and different dates may be appointed for different areas and for different provisions of this Act and for different establishments**. All the provisions of the Act came into force in the whole of the State of Kerala, in respect of all establishments except those establishments owned or controlled by the Central Government as per notification No.15401 E2/81/LBR dt. 19/05/1981, published as S.R.O. No. 589/81 in K. G. Ext. No. 385 dt. 19/05/1981.