Act Number: 13

Act Name: The Indian Antarctic Act, 2022

Year: 2022

Enactment Date: 2022-08-06

Long Title: An Act to provide for the national measures for protecting the Antarctic environment and dependent and associated ecosystems and to give effect to the Antarctic Treaty, the Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources and to the Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.

Ministry: Ministry of Earth Sciences

Department:

Section 1: Short title and commencement.
(1) This Act may be called the Indian Antarctic Act, 2022.
(2) It shall come into force on such date* as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint and different dates may be appointed for different provisions of this Act.
Notes:
1. 7th August, 2023, vide notification No. S.O. 3509(E), dated 7th August, 2023, see Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, sec. 3(ii).
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