law: Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012
  Chapter I:
  
  Preliminary
  1. Short title,
  
  extent and commencement.-
  1.  
  
    This
  
  Act may be called the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012.
  2.  
  
    It
  
  extends to the whole of India, except the State of Jammu and Kashmir.
  3.  
  
    It
  
  shall come into force on such date as the Central Government may, by
  
  notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.