Section 1 - Short title, extent and commencement. - Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016

MINISTRY OF LAW AND JUSTICE (Legislative Department) New Delhi, the 28th May, 2016/Jyaistha 7, 1938 (Saka) The following Act of Parliament received the assent of the President on the 28th May, 2016, and is hereby published for general information:- THE INSOLVENCY AND BANKRUPTCY CODE, 2016 NO. 31 OF 2016 [28th May, 2016.] An Act to consolidate and amend the laws relating to reorganisation and insolvency resolution of corporate persons, partnership firms and individuals in a time bound manner for maximisation of value of assets of such persons, to promote entrepreneurship, availability of credit and balance the interests of all the stakeholders including alteration in the order of priority of payment of Government dues and to establish an Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India, and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto. BE it enacted by Parliament in the Sixty-seventh Year of the Republic of India as follows:- PART I PRELIMINARY Short title, extent and commencement. 1. (1) This Code may be called the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016. (2) It extends to the whole of India: 1 [ **** ] (3) It shall come into force on such date as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint: Provided that different dates may be appointed for different provisions of this Code and any reference in any such provision to the commencement of this Code shall be construed as a reference to the commencement of that provision. ************ NOTES:- 1. Omitted vide Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation (Adaptation of Central Laws) Order, 2020 dated 18-03-2020 before it was read as Provided that Part III of this Code shall not extend to the State of Jammu and Kashmir.