law: Chapter I
  Preliminary
  1. Short title, extent and commencement.-
  (1) This Act may be called the Delhi Co-operative Societies Act, 1972.
  (2) It extends to the whole of the Union territory of Delhi.
  (3) It shall come into force on such date1 as the Lieutenant-Governor may, by notification in the Delhi Gazette, appoint.
  1. 2nd April, 1973, vide notification No. 7(15)/65-73/coop/3613, Delhi Gazette, Extraordinary, Part IV, dated 16th March 1973.