Chapter I — PRELIMINARY

Section 1Short title, extent and commencement

Section 1: Short title, extent and commencement

1. Short title, extent and commencement

(1)

This Act may be called the Warehousing Corporations Act, 1962.

(2)

It extends to the whole of India * * *.

(3)

It shall come into force on such date as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.

Amendment notes (3)
  1. omitted w.e.f. 22-10-1989 . The words "except the State of Jammu and Kashmir" omitted by Act 37 of 1989, s. 2 (w.e.f. 22-10-1989).
  2. . 18th March, 1963; vide notification No. G.S.R. 463, dated 16th March, 1963, see Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Pt. II, sec. 3 (i).
  3. omitted w.e.f. 27-11-1965 This Act shall, in its application to the States specified in the Schedule to Act 20 of 1965, have effect as if in clause (e) of section 2 the words and figures "being a commodity with respect to which Parliament has power to make laws by virtue of entry 33 in List III in the Seventh Schedule to the Constitution" had been omitted: vide Act 20 of 1965, s. 2 (w.e.f. 27-11-1965).