Section 11
Power to issue directions to Institute.
The Indian Statistical Institute Act, 1959
About this Act
An Act to declare the institution known as the Indian Statistical Institute 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
Institute, such directions as it thinks fit to the Institute, and such directions may include directions
requiring the Institute--
(a) to amend the memorandum or to make or amend any rule or 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 Institute 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 rules and regulations of the Institute.
(a) to amend the memorandum or to make or amend any rule or 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 Institute 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 rules and regulations of the Institute.