Section 1:
Short title and commencement.
(1) This Act may be called the Offshore Areas Mineral
(Development and Regulation) Act, 2002.
(2) It shall come into force on such date1 as the Central Government may, by notification in the
Official Gazette, appoint.
Notes:
1.15th January, 2010, vide notification no. S.O. 338(E), dated by 11th February, 2010, see Gazette of India, Extraordinary,
Part II, sec. 3(ii).