Prior publication requirement for rules under the Code ensures notice and Gazette publication before they take effect, with emergency exception.

The Code conditions rulemaking (excluding Chapter III schemes) on prior publication: a draft must be published in the Official Gazette with a specified date allowing a minimum notice period before adoption, and final rules must be published in the Official Gazette to operate as if enacted in the Code; the Central Government may dispense with prior publication in circumstances of epidemic, pandemic or disaster.

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