Section 1. Short title, extent and commencement

CHAPTER I PRELIMINARY 1. Short title, extent and commencement.— (1) This Act may be called the Warehousing (Development and Regulation) Act, 2007. (2) It extends to the whole of India except the State of Jammu and Kashmir*. (3) It shall come into force on such date[1] as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint. 1. 25th October, 2010, vide notification No. S.O. 2613(E), dated 21st October, 2010, see Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, sec. 3(ii). *. Vide notification No. S.O. 3912(E), dated 30th October, 2019, this Act is made applicable to the Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir and the Union territory of Ladakh. (ii) in relation to a non-negotiable warehouse receipt, a person named in it as the person to whom the goods are to be delivered or the assignee of that person; (l) "member" means a member of the Authority and includes its Chairperson; (m) "negotiable warehouse receipt" means a warehouse receipt under which the goods represented therein are deliverable to the depositor or order, the endorsement of which has the effect of transfer of goods represented thereby and the endorsee for which takes a good title; (n) "non-negotiable warehouse receipt" means a warehouse receipt other than a negotiable warehouse receipt; (o) "notification" means a notification published in the Official Gazette; (p) "person" includes a firm, co-operative society or any association or body of persons, whether incorporated or not; (q) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act; (r) "regulation" means a regulation made under this Act; (s) "warehouse" means any premises (including any protected place) conforming to all the requirements including manpower specified by the Authority by regulations wherein the warehouseman takes custody of the goods deposited by the depositor and includes a place of storage of goods under controlled conditions of temperature and humidity; (t) "warehousing business" means the Business of maintaining warehouses in storage of goods and issuing negotiable warehouse receipts; (u) "warehouse receipt" means an acknowledgement in writing or in electronic form issued by a warehouseman or his duly authorised representative (including depository by whatever name called) of the receipt for storage of goods not owned by the warehouseman; (v) "warehouseman" means any person who is granted a certificate of registration in respect of any warehouse or warehouses by the Authority or an accreditation agency for carrying on the business of warehousing.