3. Power of State Government to exempt any race, sect or tribe in the State from operation of
Act.
(1)The State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, either retrospectively from
the sixteenth day of March, 1865, or prospectively, exempt from the operation of any of the following
provisions of this Act, namely, sections 5 to 49 , 58 to 191 , 212, 213 and 215 to 369, the members of any
race, sect or tribe in the State, or of any part of such race, sect or tribe, to whom the State Government
considers it impossible or inexpedient to apply such provisions or any of them mentioned in the order.