(1) This Act may be called the Spices Board Act, 1986.

(2) It extends to the whole of India.

(3) It shall come into force on such date ¹ as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.

1 . 26th February, 1987, vide Notification No. S.O. 122(E), dated 26th February, 1987, see Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, sec. 3(ii).