1Short title and commencement.
Section 1 · Chapter I · page 5 of the Act
(1) This Act may be called the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016.
(2) It shall come into force on such date1 as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.
1 19th April, 2017, vide notification no. S.O. 1215 (E) dated 19th April, 2017, see Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3 (ii).