The General Clauses Act, 1897
(1) Where, by any [Central Act] or Regulation made after the commencement of this Act, any power is conferred ***, then [unless a different intention appears] that power may be exercised from time to time as occasion requires. (2) This section applies also to all [Central Acts] and Regulations made on or after the fourteenth day day of January, 1887.
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Official India Code text: The General Clauses Act, 1897, English PDF (bitstream 123456789/15374/1/the_general_clauses_act,_1897.pdf, 549,254 bytes, sha256 ef4645f24759ec1e...) fetched directly from indiacode.nic.in (Akamai edge, DNS via dns.google) on 2026-08-03. Extracted via pdftotext 26.07 -bbox and the @nexlex/ingest inline parser. Automated parse; footnotes and amendment history excluded. Spot-verified against the PDF; full clause-level proofread pending.
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