Subordinate Legislation
Legal definition for Indian law research
Definition
Subordinate legislation, the compendious term 'Subordinate Legislation' refers to notifications, orders, schemes, rules and bye-laws referred to in ss. 20 and 21 of the General Clauses Act. It would be noticed that the word 'order' used in the General Clauses Act is not used in the same sense that word is used in England where orders are excluded from the statutory definition of statutory rules as being administrative, Sukdev Singh v. Bhagatram, AIR 1975 SC 1331 (1364): (1975) 1 SCC 421.
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