1. Short title and commencement.—(1) This Act may be called the 2
[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. 4
[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 4
[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.