Family Courts (Amendment) Act, 2022

No: 16 Dated: Aug, 12 2022

Family Courts (Amendment) Act, 2022

An Act further to amend the Family Courts Act, 1984.

BE it enacted by Parliament in the Seventy-third Year of the Republic of India as follows:-

1. (1) This Act may be called the Family Courts (Amendment) Act, 2022.

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

2. In the Family Courts Act, 1984 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act), in section 1, in sub-section (3), the following proviso shall be inserted, namely:-

  “Provided that it shall be deemed to have come into force in the State of Himachal Pradesh with effect from the 15th February, 2019 and in the State of Nagaland with effect from the 12th September, 2008.”