law: Semiconductor Integrated Circuits Layout-Design Act, 2000
  Chapter
  
  I Preliminary
  1.
  
     Short
  
  title, extent and commencement.
  1.   This Act may be
  
  called the Semiconductor Integrated Circuits Layout-Design Act, 2000.
  2.   It extends to the
  
  whole of India.
  3.   It shall come into
  
  force on such date as the Central Government may, by notification in the
  
  Official Gazette, appoint; and 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.