(1) The State Government may, after consultation with the Advisory Committee, by notification in the Official Gazette and subject to the condition of previous publication, make one or more schemes for any scheduled employment or group of scheduled employments, in one or more areas specified in the notification; and in like manner add to, amend, vary or substitute another scheme for, any scheme made by it:
Provided that, no such notification shall come into force, unless a period of one month has expired from the date of publication in the Official Gazette:
(a) if it considers necessary, or
(b) if a demand or request is made by a majority of the employers or [unprotected workers] in any other scheduled employment, that the provisions of any scheme so made for any scheduled employment or any part thereof should be applied to such other scheduled employment, after consulting the employers and [unprotected workers] in such scheduled employment, by notification in the Official Gazette, apply the provisions of such scheme or part thereof to such scheduled employment, with such modifications, if any, as may be specified in the notification.
(2) The provisions of section 24 of the Bombay General Clauses Act, 1904 (Bom. III of 1904), shall apply to the exercise of the power given by sub-section (1) as they apply to the exercise of a power given by a Maharashtra Act to make rules subject to the condition of previous publication.