law: The Prohibition of Child Marriage Act, 2006
  1. Short title,
  
  extent and commencement.-
  1.  
  
    This
  
  Act may be called the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act, 2006.
  2.  
  
    It
  
  extends to the whole of India except the State of Jammu and Kashmir; and it
  
  applies also to all citizens of India without and beyond India: Provided that
  
  nothing contained in this Act shall apply to the Re-noncants of the Union
  
  territory of Pondicherry.
  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 States and any reference in any provision to the
  
  commencement of this Act shall be construed in relation to any State as a reference
  
  to the coming into force of that provision in that State.