(1) This Act may be called the Company Secretaries Act, 1980.

(2) It extends to the whole of India.

(3) It shall come into force on such date1 as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint

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Footnote -

1. 1st January, 1981, vide notification No. S.O. 989(E), dated 27th December, 1980, see Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, sec. 3(ii)