Short title, extent and commencement.

1. (1) This Act may be called the Specific Relief Act, 1963.
2. (2) It extends to the whole of India 1***.
3. (3) It shall come into force on such date2as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.

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. 182, dated 13th January, 1964, see Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, sec. 3(ii).