Section 37. Power to make rules

37. Power to make rules. —(1) The Central Government may, after consulting the Central Apprenticeship Council, by notification in the Official Gazette, make rules for carrying out the purposes of this Act. 3[(1A) The powers to make rules under this section shall include the power to make such rules or any of them retrospectively from a date not earlier than the date on which this Act received the assent of the President, but no such retrospective effect shall be given to any such rule so as to prejudicially affect the interests of any person to whom such rule may be applicable.] 1. Ins. by Act 4 of 1997, s. 8 (w.e.f. 8-1-1997). 2. Subs. by Act 27 of 1973, s. 23, for "a Deputy or Assistant Apprenticeship Adviser" (w.e.f. 1-12-1974). 3. Ins. by Act 29 of 2014, s. 14 (w.e.f. 22-12-2014). (2) Rules made under this Act may provide that a contravention of any such rule shall be punishable with fine which may extend to fifty rupees. (3) Every rule made under this section shall be laid as soon as may be after it is made before each House of Parliament which it is in session for a total period of thirty days which may be comprised in one session[1] [or in two or more successive sessions, and if, before the expiry of 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. 38. [ Repeal. ] Rep. by the Repealing and Amending Act, 1964(52 of 1964), s. 2 and the First Schedule ( w.e.f. 29-12-1964). '(m) "wages" means the stipend payable to an apprentice under section 13(1) of the Apprentices Act, 1961,'; (d) for clause (n), substitute — '(n) "workman" means any person who is engaged as an apprentice as defined in the Apprentices Act, 1961, and who in the course of his Apprenticeship training is employed in any such capacity as is specified in Schedule II,'; (2) omit section 12; (3) omit section 15; (4) omit the proviso to section 21(1); (5) omit the words "or a registered Trade Union" in section 24; (6) omit clause (d) in section 30 (1); (7) omit clauses (vi), (xi), (xiii), (xvii), (xviii), (xx), (xxii), (xxiv), (xxv) and (xxxii) in Schedule II.