Mera Samvidhaan All of Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005

Chapter I · Preliminary

1Short title, extent and commencement.

Section 1 · Chapter I · page 3 of the Act

(1) This Act may be called the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005.

(2) It extends to the whole of India 1***.

(3) It shall come into force on such date2 as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.

1 The words “except the State of Jammu and Kashmir” omitted by Act 34 of 2019, s. 95 and the Fifth Schedule (w.e.f. 31-10-2019).

2 26th October, 2006, vide Notification No. S.O. 1776(E), dated by 17th October, 2006, see Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, sec. 3(ii).

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