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Section 1: Short title, extent and commencement
- (1) This Act may be called the Designs Act, 2000.
- (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; and different dates may be appointed for different provisions of this Act, and any reference in any such provision to the commencement of this Act shall be construed as a reference to the coming into force of that provision.
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