Section 1:
Short title and commencement.
(1) This Act may be called the Repatriation of Prisoners Act,
2003.
(2) It shall come into force on such date1 as the Central Government may, by notification in the
Official Gazette, appoint.
Notes:
1 1st January, 2004, vide notification No. S.O. 1464(E), dated 24th December, 2003, see Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II,
sec. 3(ii).