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Chapter VI: ## SUPPLEMENTAL CHAPTER VI SUPPLEMENTAL 34. Power to delegate. 35. Rules to be laid before Houses of Parliament. 36. Jurisdiction of ordinary courts. 37. Effect of Act and rules, etc., inconsistent with other enactments. 38. Ordinary avocations of life to be interfered with as little as possible. 39. Savings as to orders. 40. Protection of action taken under the Act. THE[1] [DEFENCE AND INTERNAL SECURITY OF INDIA] ACT, 1971 ACT NO. 42 OF 1971 [4 th December , 1971] An Act to provide for special measures to ensure the public safety and interest, the defence of India and civil defence[1] [and internal security] and for the trial of certain offences and for matters connected therewith. WHEREAS the President has declared by[2] [Proclamations] under clause (1) of article 352 of the Constitution that a grave emergency exists whereby the security of India is threatened by external aggression[1] [and by internal disturbance]; AND WHEREAS it is necessary to provide for special measures to ensure the public safety and interest, the defence of India and civil defence[1] [and internal security], and for the trial of certain offences and for matters connected therewith; BE it, therefore, enacted by Parliament in the Twenty-second Year of the Republic of India as follows:—