Supreme Court of India

The State of Bihar v. D. N. Ganguly & Others

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Decided 22 August 1958

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Section 10(1) of the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947, does not confer on the appropriate Government the power to cancel or supersede a reference made thereunder in respect of an industrial dispute pending adjudication by the tribunal constituted for that purpose. Nor can s. 21 of the General Clauses Act, 1897, vest such a power by necessary implication. It is well settled that the rule of construction embodied in S. 21 of the General Clauses Act can apply to the provisions of a statute only where the subject matter, context and effect of such provisions are in no way inconsistent with such…

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