https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=174304 A statutory power to delegate executive authority under the East Punjab Holdings (Consolidation and Prevention of Fragmentation) Act, 1948 could not be read as permitting retrospective delegation to validate an earlier order. The High Court held that delegation under Section 41(1) was an executive or administrative power, not a legislative one, and that retrospective operation could not be implied from general wording. Because the order under Section 42 was quasi-judicial and had been made before the notification, the later notification could not ratify a void act. The retrospective delegation was therefore invalid, and the earlier order remained without jurisdiction. en-us Wed, 03 Sep 1958 00:00:00 +0530 Mon, 05 Oct 2015 18:37:55 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=174304 A statutory power to delegate executive authority under the East Punjab Holdings (Consolidation and Prevention of Fragmentation) Act, 1948 could not be read as permitting retrospective delegation to validate an earlier order. The High Court held that delegation under Section 41(1) was an executive or administrative power, not a legislative one, and that retrospective operation could not be implied from general wording. Because the order under Section 42 was quasi-judicial and had been made before the notification, the later notification could not ratify a void act. The retrospective delegation was therefore invalid, and the earlier order remained without jurisdiction. Case-Laws Indian Laws Wed, 03 Sep 1958 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=174304