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असाधारण EXTRAORDINARY भाग II — खण्ड 1 PART II — Section 1 प्राधिकार से प्रकाशित PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY

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MINISTRY OF LAW AND JUSTICE (Legislative Department)

New Delhi, the 14th September, 2005/Bhadra 23, 1927 (Saka)

The following Act of Parliament received the assent of the President on the 28th March, 2002, and is hereby published for general information :-

THE PROTECTION OF WOMEN FROM DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ACT, 2005

No. 43 OF 2005

[13th September, 2005]

An Act to provide for more effective protection of the rights of women guaranteed under the Constitution who are victims of violence of any kind occurring within the family and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.

it enacted by Parliament in the Fifty-sixth Year of the Republic of India as follows:-

CHAPTER I PRELIMINARY
1. (1) This Act may be called the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005.

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

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

2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,-
 * (a) “aggrieved person" means any woman who is, or has been, in a domestic relationship with the respondent and who alleges to have been subjected to any act of domestic violence by the respondent;