Article 1 - Short title and commencement - Constitution (88th Amendment) Act, 2003

MINISTRY OF LAW AND JUSTICE (Legislative Department) New Delhi, dated the 16th January, 2004/Pausa 26, 1925 (Saka) The following Act of Parliament, after having been ratified by the Legislatures of not less than one-half of the States by resolution to that effect, received the assent of the President on 15th January, 2004 and is hereby published for general information: THE CONSTITUTION (EIGHTY-EIGHTH AMENDMENT) ACT, 2003 [15th January, 2004.] An Act further to amend the Constitution of India. BE it enacted by Parliament in the Fifty-fourth Year of the Republic of India as follows: 1. Short title and commencement . (1) This Act may be called the Constitution (Eighty-eighth Amendment) Act, 2003. (2) It shall come into force on such date as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.