Section 12
Power to issue directions to Society.
About this Act
An Act to declare the institution known as the Asiatic Society having at present its registered office in Calcutta to be an institution of national importance and to provide for certain matters connected therewith.
(1) The Central Government may, if it is satisfied that it
is necessary so to do in the public interest issue, for reasons to be recorded and communicated to the
Society, such directions as it thinks to the Society, and such directions may include directions requiring
the Society--
(a) to amend the memorandum or to make or amend any regulation within such period as may be specified in the directions;
(b) to give priorities to the work undertaken or to be undertaken by the Society in such manner as the Central Government may think fit to specify in this behalf.
(2) Any directions issued under this section shall have effect, notwithstanding anything contained in any law for the time being in force or in the memorandum or regulations of the Society.
(a) to amend the memorandum or to make or amend any regulation within such period as may be specified in the directions;
(b) to give priorities to the work undertaken or to be undertaken by the Society in such manner as the Central Government may think fit to specify in this behalf.
(2) Any directions issued under this section shall have effect, notwithstanding anything contained in any law for the time being in force or in the memorandum or regulations of the Society.