# 1 Short title and commencement
(1) This Act may be called the University Grants Commission Act, 1956.
(2) It shall come into force on such date1 as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.
Download our fully-offline, High speed android app.- Click here
1. 5th November, 1956, <i>vide</i> notification No. S.R.O. 2608, dated 1st November, 1956, <i>see</i> Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, sec. 3.
