CHAPTER I 
  
PRELIMINARY 
  
1. Short title,  extent and commencement. 
  
  
  
(1) This Act may be  called the Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934. 
  
1[(2)  It extends to the whole of India 2[* * *]. 
(3) This section  shall come into force at once, and the remaining provisions of this Act shall  come into force on such date or dates3 as the 4[Central  Government] may, by notification in the Gazette of India, appoint. 
Note: 
 1.  Subs. by the  A. O. 1950, for sub-section (2). 
 2.  The words  "except the State of Jammu and Kashmir" omitted by Act 62 of 1956, s.2  and Sch. (w.e.f. 1-11-1956). 
 3.  Ss.  2 to 19, 47, 50 to 52, 55 to 58 and 61 were brought into force on 1st January,  1935, see Gazette of India, 1934, Pt. I.P. 1369; and the other sections on 1st  April, 1935, see ibid., 1935, Pt. I. P. 538. 
  
 4.  Subs. by the M. O.  1937, for "G. G. in C". 
  
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