law: The Comptroller and Auditor-General's (Duties, Powers and Conditions of Service) Act, 1971
  22. Power to make rules.-
  (1) The Central Government may, after consultation with the Comptroller and Auditor-General, by notification in the Official Gazette, make rules for carrying out the provisions of this Act in so far as they relate to the maintenance of accounts.
  (2) In particular, and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power, such rules may provide for all or any of the following matters, namely:-
  (a) the manner in which initial and subsidiary accounts shall be kept by the treasuries, offices and departments rendering accounts to audit and accounts offices;
  (b) the manner in which the accounts of 1[the Union or of a State or of] any particular service or department or of any particular class or character, in respect of which the Comptroller and Auditor-General has been relieved from the responsibility of compiling or keeping the accounts, shall be compiled or kept;
  (c) the manner in which the accounts of stores and stock shall be kept in any office or department of the Union or of a State, as the case may be;
  (d) any other matter which is required to be, or may be, prescribed by rules.
  (3) 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 2[in two or more successive sessions], and if, before the expiry of 3[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.
  1. Ins. by Act 58 of 1976, s. 4 (w.e.f. 1-3-1976).
  2. Subs. by Act 58 of 1976, s. 4, for "in two successive sessions" (w.e.f. 1-3-1976).
  3. Subs. by s. 4, ibid., for "the session in which it is so laid or the session immediately following" (w.e.f. 1-3-1976).