Section 1
Short title and commencement.
The National Waterways Act, 2016.
About this Act
An Act to make provisions for existing national waterways and to provide for the declaration of certain inland waterways to be national waterways and also to provide for the regulation and development of the said waterways for the purposes of shipping and navigation and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
(1) This Act may be called the National Waterways Act, 2016.
(2) It shall come into force on such date 1 as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.
(2) It shall come into force on such date 1 as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.
Notes
1. 12th April, 2016, vide notification No. S.O. 1384 (E), dated 11th April, 2016, see Gazette of India, Part II, sec. 3(ii).