Section 1:
Short title, extent and commencement.
(1) This Act may be called the Designs Act, 2000.
(2) It extends to the whole of India.
(3) It shall come into force on such date1
as the Central Government may, by notification in the
Official Gazette, 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 coming into force of that provision.
Notes:
1 11th May, 2001, vide notification No. S.O. 414(E), dated 11th May, 2001, see Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II,
sec. 3(ii).