THE PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT (REQUIREMENT AS TO RESIDENCE) AMENDMENT ACT, 1964
[Act, No. 10 of 1964]
[9th May, 1964]
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An Act to amend the Public Employment (Requirement as to Residence) Act, 1957
Be it enacted by Parliament in the Fifteenth Year of the Republic of India as follows :-
1. Short title.-
This Act, may be called the Public Employment (Requirement as to Residence) Amendment Act, 1964.
2. Amendment of section 4.-
For section 4 of the Public Employment (Requirement as to Residence) Act, 1957 (44 of 1957) (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act), the following section shall be substituted, namely:-
4. Parliamentary scrutiny of rules.-
Every rule made under this Act 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 successive sessions, and if before the expiry of the session in which it is so laid or the session immediately following, both Houses agree in making any modification in the rule or both Houses agree that the rule should not be made, rule shall thereafter have effect only in such modified form or be of no effect, as the case may be; so however that may such modification or annulment shall be without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under that rule.".
3. Amendment of section 5.-
In section 5 of the principal Act, for the words "five years", the words "ten years" shall be substituted and shall be deemed always to have been substituted.
4. Validity of rules and action taken thereunder.-
For the removal of doubts, it is hereby declared that all rules made under section 3 of the principal Act and in force immediately before the 21st March, 1964, shall continue to be in force after that date until amended, varied or rescinded, as if such rules were made under the principal Act as amended by this Act; and any action taken (including appointments made) in pursuance of those rules on or after the 21st March, 1964 and before the commencement or on or after the 21st March, 1964 and before the commencement of this Act shall be as valid and operative as if it had been taken in