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( 1 ) This Act may be called the Maharashtra Medical Practitioners Act, 1961. ( 2 ) It extends to the whole of the State of Maharashtra. ( 3 ) The whole Act (except Chapter VI thereof) shall come into force on such 1 date as the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette , appoint; and Chapter VI shall come into force on such other date 2 [being subsequent date] as that Government, by like notification, appoints.