Short title, extent and commencement.

(1)This Act may be called the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996.

(2)It extends to the whole of India:

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(3)It shall come into force on such date² as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.

Footnotes (from the official text)

¹ The proviso and Explanation omitted by the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganization (Adaptation of Central Laws) Order, 2020, vide notification No. S.O. 1123(E) dated (18-3-2020) and vide Union Territory of Ladakh Reorganisation (Adaptation of Central Laws) Order, 2020, notification No. S.O. 3774(E), dated (23-10-2020).

² 22nd August, 1996, vide notification No. G.S.R 375(E), dated 22nd August, 1996, see Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, sec. 3(i).