(1) This Act may be called the Securities Contracts (Regulation) Act, 1956.
(2) It extends to the whole of India.
(3) It shall come into force on such date1 as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.
Footnotes in the official text
- 1.20th February, 1957, vide Notifn. No. S.R.O. 528, dated 16th February, 1957, see Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, sec. 3 this Act has been extended in its application to the Union territory Goa, Daman and Diu by the Act 11 of 1963, s. 3 and the Sch. (w.e.f. 1-2-1965).