Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act

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THE TRANSGENDER PERSONS (PROTECTION OF RIGHTS) ACT, 2019 [Act No. 40 of 2019] [05th December, 2019] PREAMBLE An Act to provide for protection of rights of transgender persons and their welfare and for matters connected therewith and incidental thereto. Be it enacted by Parliament in the Seventieth Year of the Republic of India as follows:-- (1) This Act may be called the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act, 2019. (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. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,— [2] [(a) “appropriate Government” means— (i) in relation to the Central Government or any establishment wholly or substantially financed by that Government, the Central Government; (ii) in relation to a State Government or any establishment wholly or substantially financed by that Government, or any local authority within a State, the State Government; (iii) in relation to a Union territory or any establishment wholly or substantially financed by the Central Government in that Union territory, the Administrator thereof appointed under article 239 of th