Short title, extent and commencement.

(1)This Act may be called the Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1981.

(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 (from the official text)

¹ 16th May, 1981, vide notification No. G.S.R. 351(E), dated 15th May, 1981, see Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, sec. 3 (i).