Section 1:
Short title, extent and commencement.
(1) This Act may be called the Coir Industry
Act, 1953.
(2) It extends to the whole of India except the State of Jammu and Kashmir*..
(3) It shall come into force on such date1
as the Central Government may, by notification in the
Official Gazette, appoint.
Notes:
1 . 9th February, 1954, vide notification No. S.R.O. 470, dated 9th February, 1954, see Gazette of India, Extraordinary Part I,
s. 3(ii).
*. Vide notification No. S.O. 3912(E), dated 30th October, 2019, this Act is made applicable to the Union territory of Jammu
and Kashmir and the Union territory of Ladakh.