Section 1:
Short title, extent and commencement.
(1) This Act may be called the Prohibition of Child
Marriage Act, 2006.
(2) It extends to the whole of India 1***; and it applies also to all citizens of India without and beyond
India:
Provided that nothing contained in this Act shall apply to the Renoncants of the Union territory of
Pondicherry.
(3) It shall come into force on such date2
as the Central Government may, by notification in the
Official Gazette, appoint; and different dates may be appointed for different States and any reference in
any provision to the commencement of this Act shall be construed in relation to any State as a reference
to the coming into force of that provision in that State.
Notes:
1. The words "except the State of Jammu and Kashmir" omitted by Act 34 of 2019, s. 95 and the Fifth Schedule
(w.e.f. 31-10-2019).
2. 1st November, 2007, vide notification No. S.O. 1850(E), dated 30th October, 2007, see Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II,
sec. 3(ii).