Short title, extent commencement and Exemptions.

Short title.—(I) This Act may be called "The Infant Marriages Prevention Act, 1985". (2) Extent and commencement—It shall extend to the whole of the State of Jammu and Kashmir I [and it applies also to State Subjects and servants of the State in any part of India] and shall be brought into force from first Bhadon, 1985. (3) Exemptions.— [The Government] may, by notification in the Jammu and Kashmir Government Gazette, exempt any community or class of persons or any class of marriages from all or any of the provisions of this Act.