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Limitation Act, 1963

Section 1, Limitation Act: Short title, extent and commencement

Pundora · Published 3 October 2026

Section 1 of the Limitation Act, 1963, in the Act's own words.

The section

1. Short title, extent and commencement.

(1) This Act may be called the Limitation Act, 1963. (2) It extends to the whole of India 1***. (3) It shall come into force on such date2 as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.

The text is India Code's consolidated text as loaded into Pundora's statute corpus on 1 September 2026. A section quoted in a draft checked by Pundora is checked against this text.

The periods themselves are in the Schedule: every article, with its period and when time begins to run.

Sources

  1. India Code: Limitation Act, 1963, section 1 (read 1 September 2026)

The Act's own words, from India Code. If the text here differs from the Gazette, the Gazette governs; write to contact@pundora.in and it will be corrected and dated.