1. This Act has been extended to Dadra and Nagar Haveli by Reg. 6 of 1963, s. 2 and First Schedule. This Act has been amended in U.P. Act 57 of 1976. This Act shall, from a date to be notified by the administrator, come into force in Pondicherry, subject to the following modification: In section 2, after sub -section ( 2), insert:― “(2A) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub -section ( 1) nothing contained in this Act shall apply to the renoncants of the Union territory of Pondicherry.”