(1) This Act may be called the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989.
(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).
- 2.30th January, 1990, vide Notifn. No. S.O. 106(E), dated 29th January, 1990, see Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, sec. 3(ii).