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Section 1: Short title, extent, application and commencement
- (1) This Act may be called the Bharatiya Vayuyan Adhiniyam, 2024.
- (2) It extends to the whole of India and applies to—
- (a) citizens of India wherever they may be;
- (b) the aircraft, and the persons on aircraft, registered in India wherever they may be;
- (c) the aircraft, and the persons on aircraft, registered outside India, but for the time being in or over India; and
- (d) an aircraft operated by a person who is not a citizen of India but has his principal place of business or permanent residence in India.
- (3) It shall come into force on such date1 as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.
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