(1) This Act may be called the Food Corporations Act, 1964.
(2) It extends to the whole of India 1***.
(3) It shall come into force on such date2 as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.
1The words "except the State of Jammu and Kashmir" omitted by Act 67 of 1972, s. 2 (w.e.f. 15-12-1972).
217th December, 1964, vide notification No. G.S.R. 1808, dated 16th December, 1964, see Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, sec. 3 (i).