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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 5th December, 2019/Agrahayana 14, 1941 (Saka)

The following Act of Parliament received the assent of the President on the5th December, 2019, and is hereby published for general information:—

THE TRANSGENDER PERSONS (PROTECTION OF RIGHTS) ACT, 2019 [5th December, 2019.]

An Act to provide for protection of rights of transgender persons and their welfare and for matters connected therewith and incidental thereto.

it enacted by Parliament in the Seventieth Year of the Republic of India as follows:—

==CHAPTER I ==

1. (1) This Act may be called the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act, 2019.

(2) It extends to the whole of India.

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