The General Clauses Act, 1897
Where, by any [Central Act] or Regulations a power to [issue notifications,] orders, rules or bye-laws is conferred, then that power includes a power, exercisable in the like manner and subject to the like sanction and conditions (if any), to add to, amend, vary or rescind any [notifications,] orders, rules or bye-laws so [issued].
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Official text: India Code (official) ↗
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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