Section 1

Short title and commencement.

The Life Insurance Corporation Act, 1956

  • Act 31 of 1956
  • Ministry of Finance
  • Department of Financial Services
About this Act

An Act to provide for the nationalisation of life insurance business in India by transferring all such business to a Corporation established for the purpose and to provide for the regulation and control of the business of the Corporation and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.

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        (1) This Act may be called the Life Insurance Corporation Act, 1956.
          (2) It shall come into force on such date 1 as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.
    

Notes

1 1st July, 1956, vide notification No. S. R. O. 1456, dated 26th June, 1956, see Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, sec. 3.
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