Section 6:
General powers of Central Government to regulate use of emblem.
(1) The Central
Government may make such provision by rules as appears to it to be necessary, to regulate the use of the
emblem in official seal that is used in offices of the Central Government and the State Governments and
their organisations including diplomatic missions abroad, subject to such restrictions and conditions as
may be prescribed.
(2) Subject to the provisions of this Act, the Central Government shall have powers—
(a) to notify the use of emblem on stationery, the method of printing or embossing it on demiofficial
stationery by the constitutional authorities, Ministers, Members of Parliament, Members of
Legislative Assemblies, officers of the Central Government and the State Governments;
(b) to specify the design of the official seal consisting of the emblem;
(c) to restrict the display of emblem on vehicles of constitutional authorities, foreign dignitaries,
Ministers of the Central Government and the State Governments;
(d) to provide for guidelines for display of emblem on public buildings in India, the diplomatic
missions and on the buildings occupied by India's consulatesa broad;
(e) to specify conditions for the use of emblem for various other purposes including the use for
educational purposes and the armed forces personnel;
(f) to do all such things (including the specification of design of the emblem and its use in the
manner whatsoever) as the Central Government considers necessary or expedient for the exercise of
the foregoing powers.