Specific Relief Act Section 20A — Special provisions for contract relating to infrastructure project
CHAPTER II SPECIFIC PERFORMANCE OF CONTRACTS
General
Summary
In legal cases about contracts for infrastructure projects listed in the Schedule, a court cannot issue an injunction (a court order stopping something) if that injunction would slow down or block the project's progress or completion. The term "infrastructure project" is defined by the categories and sub-sectors listed in that Schedule. The Central Government can update this Schedule by publishing a notification in the Official Gazette, if it thinks changes are needed for infrastructure development. Any such notification must be placed before both houses of Parliament for at least thirty days, and Parliament can modify or cancel it, but anything already done under the notification before that remains valid.
Official Text
(1) No injunction shall be granted by a court in a suit under this Act involving a contract relating to an infrastructure project specified in the Schedule, where granting injunction would cause impediment or delay in the progress or completion of such infrastructure project.
Explanation.—For the purposes of this section, section 20B and clause (ha) of section 41, the expression “infrastructure project” means the category of projects and infrastructure Sub-Sectors specified in the Schedule.
(2) The Central Government may, depending upon the requirement for development of infrastructure projects, and if it considers necessary or expedient to do so, by notification in the Official Gazette, amend the Schedule relating to any Category of projects or Infrastructure Sub-Sectors.
(3) Every notification issued under this Act by the Central Government shall be laid, as soon as may be after it is issued, before each House of Parliament, while it is in session, for a total period of thirty days which may be comprised in one session or in two or more successive sessions, and if, before the expiry of the session immediately following the session or the successive sessions aforesaid, both Houses agree in making any modification in the notification or both Houses agree that the notification should not be made, the notification shall thereafter have effect only in such modified form or be of no effect, as the case may be; so, however, that any such modification or annulment shall be without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under that notification.