Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
Power to make rules - (1) The Government may, by notification, make rules for carrying out all or any of the purposes of this Act. (2) In particular and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing provision, such rules may be made for all or any of the following matters, namely:- (a) the procedure to be followed by a competent authority or any other court in inquiries, trials and the conduct of proceedings under the Act; (b) the places at which, the days on which and the manner in which a competent authority shall hold its sittings; (c) the circumstances in which and conditions subject to which an institution may be declared or recognised as children’s home, a certified school, a fit person institution, observation home or an approved place; (d) the internal management and discipline of children’s homes, certified schools, fit person institutions and observation homes and the standards to be maintained by them and their classification with reference to age-groups of the children or juvenile offenders to be detained therein; (e) the functions and liabilities of children’s homes, certified schools, fit person institutions and observation homes; (f) the inspection of children’s homes, certified schools, fit person institutions, observation homes, voluntary homes and after-care organisations; (g) the establishment, management and functions of after-care organisations and the circumstances in which and the conditions subject to which an institution may be recognised as an after care organisation; (h) the powers and functions of Chief Inspector, Inspectors and Assistant Inspectors of certified schools and children’s homes and probation officers; (i) the recruitment and training of persons appointed to carry out the purposes of this Act and the terms and conditions of their services; (j) the manner in which contribution for the maintenance of a child may be ordered to be paid by parent or guardian; (k) the conditions under which a child may be placed out on licence and the form and conditions of such licence; (l) the conditions subject to which children may be committed to the care of persons under this Act and the obligation of such persons towards the children so committed; (m) any other matter which is or may be prescribed under the Act. (3) Every rule made under this section shall be laid as soon as may be, after it is made, before each House of the State Legislature, while it is in session for a total period of fourteen days, which may be comprised in one session or in two successive sessions, and if, before the expiry of the session in which it is so laid or the session immediately following, both Houses agree in making any modification in the rule or in the annulment of the rule, the rule shall from the date on which the modification or annulment is notified have effect, only in such modified form or be of no effect as the case may be, so however that any modification or annulment shall be without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under that rule.