# 1 Short title, extent and commencement
(1) This Act may be called the Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengersand their Rehabilitation Act, 2013.
(2) It extends to the whole of India 1***.
(3) It shall come into force on such date3 as the Central Government may, by notificationin the Official Gazette, appoint:
Provided that the date so notified shall not be earlier than sixty days after the date ofpublication of 2[the said notification] in the Official Gazette
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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. 6th December, 2013, <i>vide</i> notification No.S.O. 2989(E), dated 1st October, 2013, <i>see</i> Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Sec. 3<i>(ii)</i>.
3. Subs. by Act 17 of 2015, s.3 and the Second Schedule, for "the notification" (w.e.f. 13-5-2015).
