Section 1: Short title, extent, commencement and application.
The Information Technology Act, 2000Central Act · Act 21 of 2000
(1) This Act may be called the Information Technology Act, 2000.
(2) It shall extend to the whole of India and, save as otherwise provided in this Act, it applies also to any offence or contravention thereunder committed outside India by any person.
(3) It shall come into fo rce on such date as the Central Government may, by notificati on, appoint and different dates may be appointed for different provisions of this Act and any reference in any such provision to the commencement of this Act shall be construed as a reference to the commencement of that provision.
[(4) Nothing in this Act shall apply to documents or transactions specified in the First Schedule:
Provided that the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, amend the First Schedule by way of a ddition or deletion of entries thereto.
(5) Every notification issued under sub-section (4) shall be laid before each House of Parliament.]
Short title, extent, commencement and application.
Jurisdiction
Central
Status
In force as published by the source
Judgments citing it
6
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.
other. 17 th October, 2000, vide notification No. G.S.R. 788 (E), dated 17 th October, 2000, see Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, sec. 3( ii ).
substituted, Act 10 of 2009. Subs. by Act 10 of 2009, s. 3, for sub - section ( 4 ) (w.e.f. 27 - 10 - 2009).
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