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Section 1: Short title, extent and commencement.

The Family Courts Act, 1984Central Act · Act 66 of 1984

(1) This Act may be called the Family Courts Act, 1984.

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

(3) It shall come into force on such date as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint, and different dates may be appointed for different States.

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ActThe Family Courts Act, 1984
Section1
Marginal noteShort title, extent and commencement.
JurisdictionCentral
StatusIn force as published by the source

How this provision has been amended

Taken from the footnotes printed with the provision by the source. Where a footnote names the amending instrument, it is quoted as printed.

  • omitted. . The words "except the State of Jammu and Kashmir" Omitted by the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganization (Adaptation of Central Laws) Order, 2020, vide notification No. S.O. 1123(E) dated (18-3-2020) and vide Union Territory of Ladakh Reorganisation (Adaptation of Central Laws) Order, 2020, notification No. S.O. 3774(E), dated (23-10-2020).
  • other. . This Act shall come into force in-- (i) Union territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands on 19th November, 1986,vide notification No. 79/22/86, dated 19th November, 1986, Gazette of India, Extra., Pt. II, Section 1. (ii) Madhya Pradesh on 19thNovember, 1986, vide notification No. 79/6/86, dated 14th November, 1986, Gazette of India, Extra., Pt. II, Section 1 (iii) Uttar Pradesh on 2ndOctober, 198…

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