Act Number: 40

Act Name: The Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act, 2019.

Year: 2019

Enactment Date: 2020-01-10

Long Title: An Act to provide for protection of rights of transgender persons and their welfare and for matters connected therewith and incidental thereto.

Ministry: Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment

Department: Department of Social Justice and Empowerment

Section 1: Short title, extent and commencement.
        (1) This Act may be called the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act, 2019.
        (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.
Notes:
1. 10th January, 2020, vide notification No. S.O. 135(E), dated 10th January, 2020, see Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, sec. 2(ii).
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