Section 23:
Suspension of operation of Act.
(1) If the Central Government is satisfied that circumstances
have arisen rendering it necessary that certain of the restrictions imposed by this Act should cease to be
imposed and if it considers it necessary or expedient so to do in the public interest, the Central
Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, suspend or relax to a specified extent and for
such period as may be specified in the notification, the operation of all or any of the provisions of this
Act, in all or any of the territories to which this Act extends.
(2) Where the operation of any provision of this Act has, under sub-section (1), been suspended or
relaxed, such suspension or relaxation may, at any time while this Act remains in force, be removed by
the Central Government by notification in the Official Gazette.
(3) Every notification issued under this section shall be laid, as soon as may be after it is issued,
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 notification or both Houses agree that the notification should not be issued, the
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 notification.