Section 21: Delegation of power of Comptroller and Auditor-General.

The Comptroller Auditor-General's (Duties, Powers and Conditions of Service) Act, 1971Central Act · Act 56 of 1971

Any power exercisable by the Comptroller and Auditor-General under the provisions of this Act, or any other law may be exercised by such officer of his department as may be authorised by him in this behalf by general or special order:

Provided that except during the absence of the Comptroller and Auditor-General on leave or otherwise, no officer shall be authorised to submit on behalf of the Comptroller and Auditor-General any report which the Comptroller and Auditor-General is required by the Constitution or the Government of Union Territories Act, 1963 (20 of 1963) to submit to the President or the Governor of a State or the Administrator of a Union territory having a Legislative Assembly, as the case may be.

Where this provision sits

Act	The Comptroller Auditor-General's (Duties, Powers and Conditions of Service) Act, 1971
Section	21
Marginal note	Delegation of power of Comptroller and Auditor-General.
Jurisdiction	Central
Status	In force as published by the source

Find the provision, not just read it

The full text above is free, and it stays free. What a free CourtMesh account adds is everything you cannot do by reading one page at a time:

Search 49,000+ Central and State enactments by what a provision says, not by its number
Jump from any section to every judgment that has applied it
Search 300 million+ Indian court records alongside the statute
Ask a research agent to find and read the case law on a provision for you

Free account. No card. About a minute to create.

Create a free account

Need this as data, not as a page? The Comptroller Auditor-General's (Duties, Powers and Conditions of Service) Act, 1971 is one of 49,000+ enactments on CourtMesh. The Indian court cases API serves the case law that cites these provisions over JSON, with API documentation and plans and pricing. See also the judgment library.