Act Number: 31

Act Name: The Life Insurance Corporation Act, 1956

Year: 1956

Enactment Date: 1956-06-18

Long Title: An Act to provide for the nationalisation of life insurance business in India by transferring all such business to a Corporation established for the purpose and to provide for the regulation and control of the business of the Corporation and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.

Ministry: Ministry of Finance

Department: Department of Financial Services

Section 1: Short title and commencement.
        (1) This Act may be called the Life Insurance Corporation Act, 1956.
          (2) It shall come into force on such date 1 as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.
    
Notes:
1 1st July, 1956, vide notification No. S. R. O. 1456, dated 26th June, 1956, see Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, sec. 3.
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