Central · Act 47 of 1963

Section 1 — Short title, extent and commencement.

STATUTORY TEXT

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(1) This Act may be called the Specific Relief Act, 1963.

(2) It extends to the whole of India ¹***.

(3) It shall come into force on such date²as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.

Source footnotes

¹. The words except the State of Jammu and Kashmir omitted by Act 34 of 2019, s. 95 and 96 and the Fifth Schedule (w.e.f. 31-10-2019).

². 1st March, 1964, vide notification No. S.O. 189, dated 13th January, 1964, see Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, sec. 3(ii).

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India Code, Government of India. Text fetched 09 Oct 2026. Check the linked official text and subsequent notifications when applying a provision.

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