Mera Samvidhaan All of Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act, 2007

Chapter I · Preliminary

1Short title, extent, application and commencement.

Section 1 · Chapter I · page 3 of the Act

(1) This Act may be called the Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and SeniorCitizens Act, 2007.

(2) It extends to the whole of India 1*** and it applies also it citizens of India outside India.

(3) It shall come into force in a State on such date as the State 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).

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