Week 14 General Clauses Act 1897 Sec 20 to 24 A

20. Construction of notifications, etc., issued under enactments - Where, by any (Central Act) or Regulation, a power to issue any (notification), order, scheme, rule, form, or bye-law is conferred, then expressions used in the (notification), order, scheme, rule, form or bye-law, if it is made after the commencement of this Act, shall, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context, have the same respective meaning as in the Act or Regulation conferring the power. 21. Power to issue, to include power to add to, amend, vary or rescind notifications, orders, rules, or bye-laws - Where, by any (Central Act) or Regulations, a power to ( issue notifications) orders, rules, or bye-laws is conferred, then that power includes a power, exercisable in the like manner and subject to the like sanction and condition (if any), to add to, amend, vary or rescind any (notifications), orders, rules or bye-laws so (issued). 22. Making of rules or bye-laws and issuing of orders between passing and commencement of enactment - Where, by any (Central Act) or Regulation which is not to come into force immediately, on the passing thereof, a power is conferred to make rules or bye-laws, or to issue orders with respect to the application of the Act or Regulation, or with respect to the establishment of any Court or office or the appointment of any Judge or officer thereunder, or with respect to the person by whom, or the time when, or the place where, or the manner in which, or the fees for which, anything is to be done under the Act or Regulation, then that power may be exercised at any time after the passing of the Act or Regulation, but rules, bye-laws or orders so make or issued shall not take effect till the commencement of the Act or Regulation. 23. Provisions applicable to making of rules or bye-laws after previous publication - Where, by any (Central Act) or Regulation, a power to make rules or bye-laws is expressed to be given subject to the condition of the rules or bye-laws being made after previous publication, then the following provisions shall apply, namely:- The authority having power to make the rules or bye-laws shall, before making them, publish a draft of the proposed rules or bye-laws for the information of person likely to be affected thereby. The publication shall be made in such manner as that authority deems to be sufficient, or, if the condition with respect to previous publication so requires, in such manner as the (Government concerned) prescribed. There shall be published with the draft a notice specifying a date on after which the draft will be taken into consideration. The authority having power to make the rules or bye-laws , and where the rules or bye-laws are to be made with the sanction, approval or concurrence of another authority, that authority also, shall consider any objection or suggestion which may me received by the authority having power to make the rules or bye-laws from any person with respect to the draft before the date so specified. The publication in the (Official Gazette) of a rule or bye-law purporting to have been made in exercise of a power to make rules or bye-laws after previous publication shall be conclusive proof that the rule or bye-law has been duly made. 24. Continuation of orders, etc, issued under enactments repealed and re-enacted - Where any (Central Act) or Regulation, is after the commencement of this Act, repealed and re-enacted with or without modification, then, unless it is otherwise expressly provided any (appointment notification) order, scheme, rule, form or byelaw (made or ) issued under the repealed Act or Regulation shall, so far as it is not inconsistent with the provisions re-enacted, continue in force and be deemed to have been (made or) issued under the provision s so re-enacted, unless and until it is superseded by any (appointment, notification) order, scheme, rule, form or bye-law, (made or) issued under the provisions so re-enacted (and when any (Central Act) or Regulation, which, by a notification under Section 5 or 5A of the Scheduled Districts Act, 1874 (14 of 1874) or any like law, has been extended to any local area, has, by a subsequent notification, been withdrawn form the re-extended to such area or any part thereof, the provision s of such Act or Regulations shall be deemed to have been repealed and re-enacted in such area or part within the meaning of this Section.