(1) This Act may be called the Credit Information Companies (Regulation) Act, 2005.

(2) It extends to the whole of India.

(3) It shall come into force on such date ¹ as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint:

Provided that 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.

1 14th December, 2006, vide notification No. S.O. 2098(E), dated 14th December, 2006, see Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, sec. 3(ii).