# 1 Short title, extent and commencement
(1) This Act may be called the Provident Funds Act, 1925.
(2) It extends to the whole of India 1 [except the State of Jammu and Kashmir*] 2***.
(3) It shall come into force on such date3 as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.
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1. Subs. by Act 3 of 1851, s. 3 and Schedule, for "except Part B States".
2. The words "including British Baluchistan" omitted by the A.O. 1948.
3. 1st April, 1926, Gazette of India, 1925, Pt. I, p. 1182.
*. <i>Vide</i> Notification No. S.O. 3912 (E), dated 30th October, 2019, this Act is made applicable to the Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir and the Union territory of Ladakh.
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