(1) This Act may be called the Warehousing (Development and Regulation) Act, 2007.

(2) It extends to the whole of India except the State of Jammu and Kashmir*.

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

1 . 25th October, 2010, vide notification No. S.O. 2613(E), dated 21st October, 2010, see Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, sec. 3(ii).
*. Vide notification No. S.O. 3912(E), dated 30th October, 2019, this Act is made applicable to the Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir and the Union territory of Ladakh.