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Section 1

Short title, extent and commencement

(1)
This Act may be called the Chartered Accountants Act, 1949.

(2) It extends to the whole of India.

(3)
It shall come into force on such date 3 as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint in this behalf.
Notes, amendments & references (3)

3. 1st July, 1949, vide Notification No. I OA (4)/49, dated 1st June, 1949, see Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, sec. 3 (i)

1. Subs. by the A.O. 1950, for sub-section (2) .

2. The words "except the State of Jammu and Kashmir" omitted by Act 25 of 1968, s. 3 and the Schedule (w.e.f. 15-8-1968).