Section 1:
Short title, extent and commencement.
(1) This Act may be called the Code on Wages, 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; and different dates may be appointed for different provisions of this Code and
any reference in any such provision to the commencement of this Code shall be construed as a reference
to the coming into force of that provision.
Notes:
1.18th December, 2020,--Sub-section (1), (2), (3), (10) and (11) of section 42 (to the extent relate to the central Advisory Board);
clauses (s) and (t) of sub-section (2) of section 67 (to the extent they relate to the Central advisory Board); section 69 [to the
extent it relates to section 7 and 9 (to the extent relate to the Central Government) and section 8 of the Minimum Wages Act,
1948 (11 of 1948)], vide notification No. S.O. 4604(E), dated 18th December, 2020, see Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II,
sec. 3(ii).