section 7
Amendment of section
The Dowry Prohibition (Himachal Pradesh Amendment) Act, 1976Criminal19767 sections
Statutory text
In section 9 of the principal Act,—
- (a) after the words “Central Government” occurring in sub-section
- (1) the words “or the State Government with the prior approval of the Central Government” shall be inserted;
- (b) in sub-section
- (2) after the words “Every rule made” and before the words “under this section” the words “by the Central Government” shall be inserted;
- (c) after sub-section (2), the following sub-section
- (3) shall be added, namely:— “(3) Every rule made by the State Government under this section shall be laid, as soon as may be, after it is made, before the State Legislature while it is in session for a total period of not less than seven days, which may be comprised in one session or in two successive sessions and if before the expiry of the session in which it is so laid or the sessions immediately following, the Legislature requires any modification in the rule or desires that the rule should not be made, the rule shall thereafter have effect only in such modified form or be 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.”
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