The Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation Act, 2013 · Chapter VIII – Miscellaneous

Section 37 – Power of Central Government to make model rules

In force Last verified 11 November 2026

37. Power of Central Government to make model rules

(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in section 36 of this Act:—

(a) the Central Government shall, by notification, publish model rules for theguidance and use of State Governments; and

(b) in case the State Government fails to notify the rules under section 36 of thisAct within the period of three months specified therein, then the model rules as notifiedby the Central Government shall be deemed to have come into effect, mutatis mutandis,in such State, till such time as the State Government notifies its rules.

(2) The model rules made by the Central Government under this Act shall be laid, assoon as may be after they are made, before each House of Parliament while it is in session, fora total period of thirty days which may be comprised in one session or in two or moresuccessive sessions, and if, before the expiry of the session immediately following thesession or the successive sessions aforesaid, both Houses make any modification in therule, the rule shall thereafter have effect only in such modified form; so, however, that anysuch modification shall be without prejudice to the validity of anything previously doneunder that rule.

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