Section 44:
Statutes, Ordinances notifications to be published in Official Gazette and to be laid before Parliament.
(1) Every rule made by the Central Government and every Statute and every
Ordinance made or notification issued under this Act shall be published in the Official Gazette.
(2) Every rule made by the Central Government, every Statute and every Ordinance made or
notification issued under this Act shall be laid, as soon as may be after it is made, 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 Statute,
Ordinance or notification or both Houses agree that the Statute, Ordinance or notification should not be
made or issued, the Statute, Ordinance or 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 Statute, Ordinance or notification.
(3) The power to make the Statutes, Ordinances or notifications shall include the power to give
retrospective effect from a date not earlier than the date of commencement of this Act, to the Statutes,
Ordinances, notifications or any of them but no retrospective effect shall be given to any Statute,
Ordinance or notification so as to prejudicially affect the interests of any person to whom such Statute,
Ordinance or notification may be applicable.