The Gazette of India
EXTRAORDINARY
PART II—Section 1
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY
No. 64] NEW DELHI, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1977/AGRAHAYANA 18, 1899
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MINISTRY OF LAW, JUSTICE AND COMPANY AFFAIRS (Legislative Department) New Delhi, the 9th December, 1977/Agrahayana 18, 1899 (Saka)
The following Act of Parliament received the assent of the President on the 9th December, 1977, and is hereby published for general informa- tion : —
THE SALARIES AND ALLOWANCES OF MINISTERS
(AMENDMENT) ACT, 1977
No 37 OF 1977
[9th December, 1977]
An Act further to amend the Salaries and Allowances of Ministers Act, 1952
BE it enacted by Parliament in the Twenty-eighth Year of the
Republic of India as follows: —
1 This Act may be called the Salaries and Allowances of Ministers
Short title (Amendment) Act, 1977.
38 of 1952.
2. For section 11 of the Salaries and Allowances of Ministers Act, 1952 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act), the following sec- tion shall be substituted, namely:—
Substi- tution of new section for sec- tion 11.
"11. (1) The Central Government may make rules to carry out
Power to make rules.
the purposes of this Act.
(2) Every rule made under this Act after the commencement of
43shall connei into force until it has been approved, whether with or without modifications, toy each House of Parliament and published by the Central Government in the Official Gazette.".
Valida- tion.
3, Notwithstanding anything contained in section 11 of the principal Act, as it stood immediately before the commencement of this Act, no rule made, or purporting to have been made, by the Central Government under that section with retrospective effect and no action taken or thing done in accordance with the rule so made, at any time before the com- mencement of this Act, shall be defamed to be invalid or ever to have been invalid by reason only of the fact that the Central Government had no power to make such rule retrospectively under that section.
K. K. SUNDARAM,