Handlooms (Reservation of Articles for production) Act, 1985
18. Power to exempt.-
1.
If
the Central Government is satisfied that the demand for any article or class of
articles reserved by an order under section 3 outside India is such that it is
not possible for the hand loom industry to meet such demand or any such article
or class of articles is required to be produced for purposes of research or for
the development of markets for such article or class of articles or of the
handloom industry generally, it is necessary or expedient so to do, it may, by
order published in the Official Gazette, exempt such article or class of
articles from the operation of such order, and permit such article or class of
articles to be produced by any powerloom solely for the purposes of export or
for research by such institutions as may be specified in the order.
2.
Every
order made under this section shall be laid, as soon as may be after it is
made, before each House of Parliament, while it is in session, for a total
period of thirty days which may be comprised in one session or in two or more
successive sessions, and if, before the expiry of the session immediately
following the session or the successive sessions aforesaid, both Houses agree
in making any modification in the order or both Houses agree that the order
should not be made, the order shall thereafter have effect only in such
modified form or be of no effect, as the case may be; so, however, that any
such modification or annulment shall be without prejudice to the validity of
anything previously done under that order.