Section 1
Short title, extent and commencement.
About this Act
An Act to consolidate the laws relating to coinage and the Mints, the protection of coinage and to provide for the prohibition of melting or destruction of coins and prohibit the making or the possession thereof for issue and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
(1) This Act may be called the Coinage Act, 2011.
(2) It extends to the whole of India.
(3) It shall come into force on such date1 as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.
(2) It extends to the whole of India.
(3) It shall come into force on such date1 as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.
Notes
1. 28th March, 2012, vide notification No. S.O. 628(E), dated 28th March, 2012, see Gazette of India, Extraordinary,
Part II, sec.. 3 (ii).