law: Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act, 2007
  Chapter I:
  
  Preliminary
  1. Short title
  
  extent, Application and commencement.-
  1.  
  
    This
  
  Act may be called the Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens
  
  Act, 2007.
  2.  
  
    It
  
  extends to the whole of India except the State of Jammu and Kashmir and it applies
  
  also to citizens of India outside India.
  3.  
  
    It
  
  shall come into force in a State on such date as the State Government may, by
  
  notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.