WHEREAS it is expedient to apply the Bengal State Aid to Industries Act, 1931, to the Chittagong Hill-tracts and to the partially excluded areas of the Mymensingh district;

AND WHEREAS by sub-section (2) of section 92 of the Government of India Act, 1935, as adapted by the Pakistan (Provisional Constitution) Order, 1947, the ²[Government] is empowered to make regulations for the peace and good Government of any area in his Province which is for the time being an excluded area or a partially excluded area;

NOW, THEREFORE, the ³[Government] in exercise of the said powers and all other powers enabling him in that behalf, is pleased to make the following Regulation:-