The General Clauses Act, 1897
Where, by any [Central Act] or Regulation, a power to appoint any person to fill any office or execute any function is conferred, then, unless it is otherwise expressly provided, any such appointment, if it is made after the commencement of this Act, may be made either by name or by virtue of office.
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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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