Act Number: 57

Act Name: The Indian Statistical Institute Act, 1959

Year: 1959

Enactment Date: 1959-12-24

Long Title: An Act to declare the institution known as the Indian Statistical Institute having at present its registered office in Calcutta to be an institution of national importance and to provide for certain matters connected therewith.

Ministry: Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation

Department:

Section 11: Power to issue directions to Institute.
    (1) The Central Government may, if it is satisfied that it is necessary so to do in the public interest, issue, for reasons to be recorded and communicated to the Institute, such directions as it thinks fit to the Institute, and such directions may include directions requiring the Institute--
         (a) to amend the memorandum or to make or amend any rule or regulation within such period as may be specified in the directions;
         (b) to give priorities to the work undertaken or to be undertaken by the Institute in such manner as the Central Government may think fit to specify in this behalf.
     (2) Any directions issued under this section shall have effect, notwithstanding anything contained in any law for the time being in force or in the memorandum or rules and regulations of the Institute.
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