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DPDP Act 2023 · Section 1

Short title and commencement

Status
Partially in force
Commencement
13 November 2025 · official
Source
The Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 (Gazette print hosted by MeitY) · Gazette page 1
Last verified
17 August 2026
Official requirement · verbatim

Section 1. Short title and commencement.(1) This Act may be called the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023. (2) It shall come into force on such date as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint and different dates may be appointed for different provisions of this Act and any reference in any such provision to the commencement of this Act shall be construed as a reference to the coming into force of that provision.

Commencement basis · Sections 1(2) and 2, sections 18 to 26, sections 35 and 38 to 43, and section 44(1) and (3) of the Act

“(a) the date of publication of this notification in the Official Gazette as the date on which the provisions of sub-section (2) of section 1, section 2, sections 18 to 26 sections 35, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, and sub-sections (1) and (3) of section 44 of the said Act shall come into force;”

From commencement notification G.S.R. 843(E), Gazette issue No. 757, printed date 13 November 2025.

Sources cited on this page

  1. [1]The Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 (Gazette print hosted by MeitY) (Act No. 22 of 2023), s. 1, p. 1. Published 11 August 2023. Official source ↗ · Official requirement · Verified 17 August 2026
  2. [2]Commencement notification for the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 (G.S.R. 843(E)), (a), p. 2. Published 13 November 2025. Official source ↗ · Official requirement · Verified 17 August 2026Notification G.S.R. 843(E) names section 1(2) in the group in force from the date of publication of the notification, printed as 13 November 2025 on Gazette issue No. 757. Section 1(1) is not named in any group of the notification, so this section is shown as partially in force.
  3. [3]Commencement notification for the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 (G.S.R. 843(E)), (a), p. 2. Published 13 November 2025. Official source ↗ · Official requirement · Verified 17 August 2026The publication date, 13 November 2025, is printed on the masthead of Gazette issue No. 757 itself. The eGazette portal lists this document with an upload date of 14 November 2025; the printed Gazette date is treated as authoritative, consistent with the treatment of the Rules in Gazette issue No. 760. The words "sub- sections (1) and (3)" appear with a line break split in the Gazette text layer and have been joined in this quote.