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Chapter III: ## MISCELLANEOUS CHAPTER III MISCELLANEOUS 31. Act and proceedings not to be invalidated by vacancies. 32. Sponsored schemes. 33. Power of Institute to grant degree, etc. 34. Institute to be public authority under the Right to Information Act, 2005. 35. Power of Central Government to make rules. 36. Returns and information to be provided to Central Government. 37. Transitional provisions. 38. Statute and Ordinance to be published in the Official Gazette and to be laid before Parliament. 39. Power to remove difficulties. THE SCHEDULE ACT NO. 20 OF 2017 THE FOOTWEAR DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE ACT, 2017 [4 th August, 2017.] An Act to establish and declare the Footwear Design and Development Institute as an institution of national importance for the promotion and development of quality and excellence in education, research and training in all disciplines relating to footwear and leather products design and development and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto. BE it enacted by Parliament in the Sixty-eighth Year of the Republic of India as follows:—