(1) This Act may be called the Multi-State Co-operative Societies Act, 2002.

(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.

1 19th August, 2002, vide notification No. G.S.R. 571(E), dated 16th August, 2002, see Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, sec. 3(i).