Section 77
Rules and notifications to be laid before Parliament.
The Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985
About this Act
An Act to consolidate and amend the law relating to narcotic drugs, to make stringent provisions for the control and regulation of operations relating to narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances , to provide for the forfeiture of property derived from, or used in, illicit traffic in narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances, to implement the provisions of the International Conventions on Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances and for matters connected therewith.
1[Every rule made under this Act by the
Central Government and every notification or order issued under clause (viia), clause (xi), clause (xxiiia)
of section 2, section 3, section 7A, section 9A and clause (a) of section 27 shall be laid, as soon as may
be, after it is made or issued], before each House of Parliament while it is in session, for a total period of
thirty days which may be comprised in one session or in two or more successive sessions, and if, before
the expiry of the session immediately following the session or the successive sessions aforesaid, both
Houses agree in making any modification in the rule or notification or both Houses agree that the rule or
notification should not be made or issued, the rule or the notification shall thereafter have effect only in
such modified form or be of 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 or
notification.
Notes
1. Subs. by Act 9 of 2001, s. 40, for certain words, brackets, figures and letter (w.e.f. 2-10-2001).