THE PROTECTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2000
  
 ACT NO. 49 OF 2000
  
 [11th December, 2000.]
  
 
 An Act further to amend the Protection of Human Rights Act, 1993.
 
 BE it enacted by Parliament in the Fifty-first Year of the Republic of
 India as follows:-
 
  
 1.
  
 Short title.
  
 
 1.  Short title.-This Act may be called the Protection of Human Rights
 (Amendment) Act, 2000.
 
  
 2.
  
 Amendment of Act 10 of 1994.
  
 
 2.  Amendment of Act 10 of 1994.-After section 40 of the Protection of
 Human  Rights  Act,  1993, the following section  shall  be  inserted,
 namely:-
 
 "40A.   Power  to make rules retrospectively.-The power to make  rules
 under  clause  (b) of sub-section (2) of section 40 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 receive 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.".
 
 SUBHASH C.  JAIN,
 Secy.  to the Govt.  of India
 

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