# 1 Short title, extent and commencement
(1) This Act may be called the Private Security Agencies (Regulation) Act, 2005.
(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.
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1. The 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)..
2. 14th March, 2006, <i>vide <i> notification No. S.O. 317(E), dated 15th March, 2006, <i>see</i> Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, sec. 3 <i>(ii)</i>.
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