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Section 16: Power to appoint to include power to suspend or dismiss

The General Clauses Act, 1897

Where, by any 1[Central Act] or Regulation, a power to make any appointment is conferred, then, unless a different intention appears, the authority having 2[for the time being] power to make the appointment shall also have power to suspend or or dismiss any person appointed 3[whether by itself or any other authority] in exercise of that power.

Footnotes in the official text

  1. 1.Subs. by the A.O. 1937, for “Act of the Governor General in Council”.
  2. 2.Ins. by Act 18 of 1928, s. 2 and the First Schedule.
  3. 3.Subs. by s. 2 and the First Schedule, ibid., for “by it”.

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