Central Excise Act, 1944
38. PUBLICATION OF RULES AND NOTIFICATIONS AND LAYING OF RULES BEFORE PARLIAMENT.
(1) All rules made and notifications issued under this Act shall
be published in the Official Gazette.
[ 151 (2) Every rule made under this Act, every notification
issued under [ 152 section 3A, section 4A, 152 ] sub-section (1) of section 5A
and section 11C and every order made under sub-section (2) of section 5A, other
than an order relating to goods of strategic, secret, individual or personal
nature, shall be laid, as soon as may be after it is made or issued, 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 rule or notification or order, or both Houses agree that
the rule should not be made or notification or order should not be issued or
made, the rule or notification or 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 rule or notification or order. 151 ] 150
]