Telecommunications Act, 2023

No: 44 Dated: Dec, 24 2023

Telecommunications Act, 2023

An Act to amend and consolidate the law relating to development, expansion and operation of telecommunication services and telecommunication networks; assignment of spectrum; and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.

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

CHAPTER I

PRELIMINARY

1. (1) This Act may be called the Telecommunications Act, 2023.

(2) It extends to,—

  (i) the whole of India; and

  (ii) to any offence committed or contravention made outside India by any person, as provided in this Act.

(3) 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 commencement of that provision.