Section 1 — Short title and commencement.

THE RIGHTS OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES ACT, 2016

1. Short title and commencement.—(1) This Act may be called the Rights of Persons with 

Disabilities Act, 2016. 

(2) It shall come into force on such 
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date as the Central Government may, by notification in the 

Official Gazette, appoint.

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