(1) This Act may be called the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988.
(2) It extends to the whole of India 1*** and it applies also to all citizens of India outside India.
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).