Section 1:
Short title, extent and commencement.
(1) This Act may be called the Drugs and Magic
Remedies (Objectionable Advertisement) Act, 1954.
(2) It extends to the whole of India 1***, and applies also to persons domiciled in the territories to
which this Act extends who are outside the said territories.
(3) It shall come into force on such date2
as the Central Government may, by Notification in the
Official Gazette, appoint.
Notes:
1. The words “except the State of Jammu and Kashmir” omitted by Act 34 of 2019, s. 95 and the Fifth Schedule
(w.e.f. 31-10- 2019).
2 1st April, 1955, vide notification No. S.R.O. 511, dated 26th February, 1995, see Gazette of India, 1955, Part II,
s. 3.