Short title, extent and commencement

(1) This Act may be called the Karnataka Debt Relief Act, 1976.

1. (2) It extends to the whole of the State of Karnataka.
2. (3) Sections 3, 4, 7 and 8 shall be deemed to have come into force on the twenty-first day of October, 1975, sections 5 and 6 shall be deemed to have come into force on the eleventh day of November, 1975 and section 9 shall be deemed to have come into force on the twenty-eighth day of November 1975.