Section 38:
Statute and Ordinance to be published in the Official Gazette and to be laid before Parliament.
(1) Every Statute or Ordinance made under this Act shall be published in the Official
Gazette.
(2) Every Statute or Ordinance made 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 or Ordinance or both Houses agree that the Statute or Ordinance should not be made, the Statute or
Ordinance 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 or Ordinance.
(3) The power to make Statutes or Ordinances shall include the power to give retrospective effect with
the approval of the Central Government from a date not earlier than the date of commencement of this Act
to Statutes or Ordinances or any of them but no retrospective effect shall be given to any Statute or
Ordinance so as to prejudicially affect the interests of any person to whom such Statutes or Ordinances may
be applicable.