Section 1:
Short title, extent, commencement and application.
(1) This Act may be
called the
Information Technology Act, 2000.
(2) It shall extend to the whole of India and, save as otherwise provided in this Act, it applies also to
any offence or contravention thereunder committed outside India by any person.
(3) It shall come into fo
rce on such date
1
as the Central Government may, by notificati
on, appoint and
different dates may
be appointed for different provisions of this Act and any reference in any such
provision to the commencement of this Act shall be construed as a reference to
the commencement of that
provision.
2
[(4) Nothing in this Act shall apply to documents or transactions specified in the First Schedule:
Provided that the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, amend the First
Schedule by way of a
ddition
or deletion of entries thereto.
(5) Every notification issued under sub-section (4) shall be laid before each House of Parliament.]
Notes:
1 17
th
October, 2000,
vide
notification No. G.S.R. 788 (E), dated 17
th
October, 2000,
see
Gazette of India, Extraordinary,
Part II, sec. 3(
ii
).
2
Subs. by Act 10 of 2009, s. 3, for sub
-
section (
4
) (w.e.f. 27
-
10
-
2009).