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1THE AZAD KASHMIR LEGAL PRACTITIONERS ACT, 1948 1THE AZAD KASHMIR LEGAL PRACTITIONERS ACT, 1948. (The Legal Practitioners Act, 1879) 2[ACT NO. XVIII OF 1879] [Dated October 29, 1879] AN ACT TO CONSOLIDATE AND AMEND THE LAW RELATING TO LEGAL PRACTITIONERS CHAPTER‑I PRELIMINARY 1. Short title, commencement.‑--- This Act may be called the Legal Practitioners Act, 1879, and shall come into force on the first day of January, 1880. Local extent.‑---- This section and section 2 extend to the whole of British India, The rest of this Act extends in the first instance only to East Bengal and to West Punjab. But any other Local Government may from time to time, by notification in the official Gazette, extend all or any of the provisions of the rest of this Act to the whole or any part of the territories under its administration.