#THE AUTHORITATIVE TEXTS (CENTRAL LAWS) ACT, 1973
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##ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS 
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SECTIONS 
1.  Short title and commencement. 
2.  Authoritative texts of Central laws in certain languages. 
3.  Power to make rules. 


##THE AUTHORITATIVE TEXTS (CENTRAL LAWS) ACT, 1973

##ACT NO. 50 OF 1973 

[5th December, 1973.] 

An Act to provide for authoritative texts of Central laws in certain languages. 

BE it enacted by Parliament in the Twenty-fourth Year of the Republic of India as follows:— 
**1. Short title and commencement.**—(1) This Act may be called the  Authoritative Texts (Central 
Laws) Act, 1973. 

(2)  It  shall  come  into  force  on  such  date3  as  the  Central  Government  may,  by  notification  in  the 
Official Gazette, appoint. 

**2.  Authoritative  texts  of  Central  laws  in  certain  languages.**—A  translation  in  any  language 
(other than Hindi) specified in the Eighth Schedule to the Constitution, published under the authority of 
the President in the Official Gazette,— 

(a) of any Central Act or of any Ordinance promulgated by the President, or 

(b) of any order, rule, regulation or bye-law issued under the Constitution or under any Central 
Act,

shall be deemed to be the authoritative text thereof in such language. 

**3. Power to make rules.**—(1) The Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, 
make rules for carrying out the purposes of this Act. 

(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.