Section 1

Short title and commencement

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1. (1) This Act may be called the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023.

(2) It shall come into force on such date 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.

Editorial Explanation

What this means: This section simply gives the law its official name: The Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023. It also states that the government will decide exactly when the law comes into effect, and they might implement different parts of the law at different times.