Section 1:
Short title, extent and commencement.
(1) This Act may be called the Employment Exchanges
(Compulsory Notification of Vacancies) Act, 1959.
(2) It extends to the whole of India1* * *.
(3) It shall come into force in a State on such date2
as the Central Government may, by notification in
the Official Gazette, appoint in this behalf for such State and different dates may be appointed for
different States or for different areas of a State.
Notes:
1. The words "except the State of Jammu and Kashmir" omitted by Act 51 of 1970, s. 2 and the Schedule (w.e.f. 1-9-1971).
2.1st May, 1960, vide notification No. G.S.R. 382, dated 1st April, 1960, see Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, sec.
3(i), in respect of all the States to which the Act extends and in the Union territories of Delhi, Himachal Pradesh,
Manipur and Tripura.