Section 39
Power to exempt.
The Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation Act, 2013
About this Act
An Act to provide for the prohibition of employment as manual scavengers, rehabilitation of manual scavengers and their families, and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
(1) The appropriate Government may, by a general or special order published
in theOfficial Gazette, for reasons to be recorded, and subject to such conditions as it may impose,exempt
any area, category of buildings or class of persons from any provisions of this Act orfrom any specified
requirement contained in this Act or any rule, order, notification, bye-lawsor scheme made thereunder or
dispense with the observance of any such requirement in aclass or classes of cases, for a period not
exceeding six months at a time.
(2) Every general or special order made under this section shall be laid, as soon as maybe after it is made, before each House of Parliament or each House of State Legislature, wherethere are two Houses and where there is one House of State Legislature, before that House.
(2) Every general or special order made under this section shall be laid, as soon as maybe after it is made, before each House of Parliament or each House of State Legislature, wherethere are two Houses and where there is one House of State Legislature, before that House.