(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.