HomeSchemes Child Labour State Action planChapter – 2 The Child Labour Act, 1986 Miscellaneous provisions

Miscellaneous provisions

The Appropriate Government is empowered to make the Rules under this Act and Rules should be placed before both the Houses of Parliament, or as the case may be before the State legislature.18 The Hon’ble Supreme Court held that the rules were valid from the date on which they were made and failure to place the rules before the Houses of Legislature did not effect the validity of the rules, as the Act, provided that the rules framed under the Act should be laid before each of the Houses at the session thereof next following.19 The provisions of this Act and the rules made thereunder shall be in addition to, and not in derogation of, the provisions of the Factories Act, 1948; the Plantations Labour Act, 1951; and the Mines Act, 1952. The Employment of Children Act, 1938 is hereby repealed. The repeal of an enactment completely wipes out the law, which is the subject matter of the repeal. It is to be deemed as having existed only for those actions, which were commenced, prosecuted and concluded.20 When an Act is repealed, it is the same thing as if it had never existed except with reference to such parts as are saved by the repealing statute.21