Section 1:
Short title, extent, application and commencement.
(1) This Act may be called the Foreign
Exchange Management Act, 1999.
(2) It extends to the whole of India.
(3) It shall also apply to all branches, offices and agencies outside India owned or controlled by a
person resident in India and also to any contravention thereunder committed outside India by any person
to whom this Act applies.
(4) It shall come into force on such date1
as the Central Government may, by notification in the
Official Gazette, appoint:
Provided that 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. 1st June, 2000, vide notification No. G.S.R. 371(E), dated 1st May, 2000, see Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II,
sec. 3(i).