Section 1
Short title, extent and commencement.
The Advocates' Welfare Fund Act, 2001
About this Act
An Act to provide for the constitution of a welfare fund for the benefit of advocates and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
(1) This Act may be called the Advocates' Welfare
Fund Act, 2001.
(2) It extends to the whole of India.
(3) It shall come into force on such date1 as the Central Government may, by notification, appoint; and different dates may be appointed for different provisions of this Act and for different States, and any reference in any such provision to the commencement of this Act shall be construed in relation to any State as a reference to the coming into force of that provision in that State.
(2) It extends to the whole of India.
(3) It shall come into force on such date1 as the Central Government may, by notification, appoint; and different dates may be appointed for different provisions of this Act and for different States, and any reference in any such provision to the commencement of this Act shall be construed in relation to any State as a reference to the coming into force of that provision in that State.
Notes
1. 1st November, 2001 (whole of India except certain States), vide notification No. S.O. 946(E), dated 26th September, 2001, see
Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, sec. 3(ii).