Section 1:
Short title and commencement.
(1) This Act may be called the Dock Workers (Regulation of
Employment) (Inapplicability to Major Ports) Act, 1997.
(2) It shall come into force on such date 1
as the Central Government may, by notification in the
Official Gazette, appoint.
Notes:
1 5th January, 1998, vide notification No. S.O. 22(E), dated 5th January, 1998, see Gazette of India, Extraordinary,
Part II, sec. 3(ii).