Section 1 - Short title, extent and commencement. - Jharkhand Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017

THE JHARKHAND GOODS AND SERVICES TAX ACT , 2017 (JHARKHAND ACT 12, 2017) An ACT to make a provision for levy and collection of tax on intra-State supply of goods or services or both by the State of Jharkhand and the matters connected therewith or incidental thereto BE it enacted by Legislature of Jharkhand in the Sixty-eighth Year of the Republic of India as follows:- CHAPTER I PRELIMINARY Short title, extent and commencement. 1. (1) This Act may be called the Jharkhand Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017. (2) It extends to the whole of the Jharkhand (3) It shall come into force on such date as the State 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.