Rules and Regulations Continuance Act, 1937

The Rules and Regulations Continuance Act, 1937 (Act XXIV of 1937) is a short transitional law that kept certain existing rules and regulations in force after a change in the authority responsible for making them. Section 1 gives the Act its short title.

Section 2 is the operative provision: rules made before 31 March 1937 under section 37 of the Electricity Act, 1910, and regulations made before 28 March 1937 under section 28 of the Boilers Act, 1923, by the Governor General in Council, are deemed to have been made by the authority that replaced the Governor General in Council under the Indian Electricity (Amendment) Act, 1937, and the Indian Boilers (Amendment) Act, 1937, respectively. These rules and regulations continue in force until superseded by new rules or regulations made by the Electricity Board or the Boilers Board (as the case may be) under those same sections.

In effect, this Act bridged a gap so that existing electricity and boiler safety rules did not lapse simply because rule-making authority had shifted from the Governor General to specialised boards in 1937.

This is a technical, colonial-era transitional provision (1937), amended once in 1964 per the footnote, and is of largely historical interest given how much electricity and boiler regulation has since evolved.