(1) This Act may be called the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013.
(2) It extends to the whole of India1***.
(3) It shall come into force on such date2 as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint:
Provided that the Central Government shall appoint such date within three months from the date on which the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Bill, 2013 receives the assent of the President.
1The word “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).
21st January 2014, vide notification No. 3729(E), dated 19th December, 2013, see Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, sec. 3(ii).