(1) This Act may be called the Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and SeniorCitizens Act, 2007.
(2) It extends to the whole of India 1*** and it applies also it citizens of India outside India.
(3) It shall come into force in a State on such date as the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.
1The words “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).