Office Memorandum under Section 8 of The Information Technology Act, 2000
No. O-17022/1/2015-PSP-I
Government of India
Ministry of Urban Development
(PSP Division)
Nirman Bhawan, New Delhi
Dated : 30th September, 2015
OFFICE MEMORANDUM
Subject : E-publishing of Government of India Gazette
Notification Discontinuing of the practice of physical printing.
In compliance with the provisions of Section 8 of the Information Technology Act, 2000, it has been decided in consultation with Department of Legal Affairs to switch over to exclusive e-publishing of the Government of India Gazette Notification on its official website with effect from 01.10.2015 and to do away with the physical printing of Gazette Notification. The date of publishing shall be the date of e-publication on official website by way of electronic gazette in respect of Gazette Notifications. The Gazette Notification can be accessed and downloaded/printed from the official e-Gazette website i.e. www.egazette.nic.in free of cost.
All the Ministries and Departments are requested to give wide publicity to bring this to the notice of all attached & subordinate offices, PSU, etc., as well as various stakeholders including all private users.
This issues with the approval of competent authority.
(Kailash Choudhary)
Under Secretary to the Govt. of India
P.S.:Section 8, The Information Technology Act, 2000 reads: ''Where any law provides that any rule, regulation, order, bye-law, notification or any other matter shall be published in the Official Gazette, then, such requirement shall be deemed to have been satisfied if such rule, regulation, order, bye-law, notification or any other matter is published in the Official Gazette or Electronic Gazette: Provided that where any rule, regulation, order, by-law, notification or any other matter is published in the Official Gazette or Electronic Gazette, the date of publication shall be deemed to be the date of the Gazette which was first published in any form.''
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