# 1 Short title, extent and commencement
(1) This Act may be called the Copyright Act, 1957.
(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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1. 21st January, 1958, <i>vide</i> notification No. 269, dated 21st January 1958, <i>see</i> Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, sec. 3
