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The Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989

§1Short title, extent and commencement

(1) This Act may be called the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989. (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.

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Official India Code text: The Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989, English PDF (bitstream 123456789/1920/1/aA1989-33.pdf, 370,806 bytes, sha256 b52783c516d99d3c...) fetched directly from indiacode.nic.in (Akamai edge, DNS via dns.google) on 2026-08-03. Extracted via pdftotext 26.07 -bbox and the @nexlex/ingest inline parser. Automated parse; footnotes and amendment history excluded. Spot-verified against the PDF; full clause-level proofread pending.

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