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Section 1: Short title, extent and commencement · Complied AI

Section 1Chapter 1

Short title, extent and commencement

(1)

This Act may be called the 2[Cost Accountants] Act, 1959.

(2)

It extends3 to the whole of India 4***;

(3)

It shall come into force on such date5 as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.

2. Subs. by Act 12 of 2022, s. 39, for "Cost and Works Accountants" (w.e.f. 10-5-2022).

3. This is made applicable to the Union territory of Goa, Daman and Diu by s. 3 and the Schedule (w.e.f. 1-8-1965).

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

Notes, amendments & references (1)

5. 28th May, 1959, vide notification No. G.S.R. 610, dated 25th May, 1959, see Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, sec. 3(i).