Section 4:
Power to make rules.
1[(1)] For the purpose of carrying out the objects of this Act, the
Central Government may, 6
by notification in the Official Gazette, make rules regulating all matters
connected with or ancillary to the custody of, the payment of moneys into and the withdrawal of
moneys from, the Contingency Fund of India.
2[(2) Every rule made under this section 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 rule or both Houses agree that the rule should not be made, the rule
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 rule.]
Notes:
1. Section 4 renumbered as sub-section (1) by Act 51 of 1982, s. 2 (w.e.f 20-10-1982).
2. Ins. by s. 2, ibid. (w.e.f 20-10-1982).