# 1 Short title, extent and commencement
(1) This Act may be called the Semiconductor Integrated Circuits Layout-Design Act, 2000.
(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; and different dates may be appointed for different provisions of this Act, and any reference in any such provision to the commencement of this Act shall be construed as a reference to the coming into force of that provision.
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1. 1st May, 2004 (Ss. 3 and 5), <i>vide</i> notification No. S.O. 278(E), dated 12th February, 2004, <i>see</i> Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, sec. 3<i>(ii)</i>.
15th January, 2014 (Ss. 93 and 94), <i>vide</i> notification No. S.O. 84(E), dated 10th January, 2014, <i>see</i> Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, sec. 3<i>(ii)</i>.
