Section 1
Short title, extent and commencement.
The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005
About this Act
An Act to provide for the enhancement of livelihood security of the households in rural areas of the country by providing at least one hundred days of guaranteed wage employment in every financial year to every household whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto..
(1) This Act may be called 1
[the Mahatma Gandhi
National Rural Employment Guarantee Act], 2005.
(2) It extends to the whole of India 2***.
(3) It shall come into force on such date2 as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint; and different dates may be appointed for different States or for different areas in a State and any reference in any such provision to the commencement of this Act shall be construed as a reference to the coming into force of that provision in such State or, as the case may be, in such area:
Provided that this Act shall be applicable to the whole of the territory to which it extends within a period of five years from the date of enactment of this Act
(2) It extends to the whole of India 2***.
(3) It shall come into force on such date2 as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint; and different dates may be appointed for different States or for different areas in a State and any reference in any such provision to the commencement of this Act shall be construed as a reference to the coming into force of that provision in such State or, as the case may be, in such area:
Provided that this Act shall be applicable to the whole of the territory to which it extends within a period of five years from the date of enactment of this Act
Notes
1. Subs. by Act 46 of 2009, s. 2, for the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (w.e.f. 2-10-2009).
2. The words "except the State of Jammu and Kashmir" omitted by Act 23 of 2007, s. 2, (w.e.f. 6-6-2007).
3. 2nd February, 2006, vide notification No. S.O. 87(E), dated 24th January, 2006, see Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II sec.3(ii).
*. Vide notification No. S.O. 3912(E), dated 30th October, 2019, this Act is made applicable to the Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir and the Union territory of Ladakh.
2. The words "except the State of Jammu and Kashmir" omitted by Act 23 of 2007, s. 2, (w.e.f. 6-6-2007).
3. 2nd February, 2006, vide notification No. S.O. 87(E), dated 24th January, 2006, see Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II sec.3(ii).
*. Vide notification No. S.O. 3912(E), dated 30th October, 2019, this Act is made applicable to the Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir and the Union territory of Ladakh.