(1) This Act may be called the National Commission for Women Act, 1990.
(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.
Footnotes in the official text
- 1.The words “except the State of Jammu and Kashmir” omitted by Act 34 of 2019, s. 95 and the Sch. V (w.e.f. 31-10- 2019).
- 2.31st January, 1992, vide Notifn. No. S.O. 99(E), dated 31st January, 1992, see Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, s. 3(ii).