Act Number: 25

Act Name: The Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation Act, 2013

Year: 2013

Enactment Date: 2013-09-18

Long Title: 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.

Ministry: Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment

Department: Department of Social Justice and Empowerment

Section 38: Power to remove difficulties.
    (1) If any difficulty arises in giving effect to the provisions of this Act, the CentralGovernment may, by order published in the Official Gazette, make such provisions, notinconsistent with the provisions of this Act, as may appear to it to be necessary or expedientfor the removal of the difficulty:
     Provided that no such order shall be made in relation to a State after the expiration ofthree years from thecommencement of this Act in that State.
     (2) Every order made under this section shall, as soon as may be after it is made, be laidbefore each House of Parliament.
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