Section 15 - Power to make rules : Payment of Gratuity Act 1972

What is the Power to make rules? Section 15 of Payment of Gratuity Act 1972

 

 

Section 15 of Payment of Gratuity Act 1972 : "Power to make rules"

15. (1) The appropriate Government may, by notification make rules for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this Act.

(2) Every rule made by the Central Government under this Act 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 rule or both Houses agree that the rule should not be made, the rule 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.