The Prohibition of Child Marriage Act, 2006
1. Short title,
extent and commencement.-
1.
This
Act may be called the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act, 2006.
2.
It
extends to the whole of India except the State of Jammu and Kashmir; and it
applies also to all citizens of India without and beyond India: Provided that
nothing contained in this Act shall apply to the Re-noncants of the Union
territory of Pondicherry.
3.
It
shall come into force on such date as the Central Government may, by
notification in the Official Gazette, appoint; and different dates may be
appointed for different States and any reference in any provision to the
commencement of this Act shall be construed in relation to any State as a reference
to the coming into force of that provision in that State.