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Power to make rules. — 6[(1)] The Central Government may after previous publication, by notification in the Official Gazette, make rules with respect to foreigners for any or all of the following purposes, that is to say— (a) for requiring any foreigner entering, or being present in, 7[India] to report his presence to a prescribed authority within such time and in such manner and with such particulars as may be prescribed; (b) for requiring any foreigner moving from one place to another place in 7[India] to report, on arrival at such other place, his presence to a prescribed authority within such time and in such manner and with such particulars as may be prescribed; * This Act has been extended to— Goa, Daman and Diu with modifications by Reg. 12 of 1962, s. 3 and Sch. Pondicherry with modification vide Notification No. G.S.R. 1557, dated 24-11-1962, Gazette of India, Pt. II, Sec, 3 (i), p. 1886; brought into force in Dadra and Nagar Haveli by Reg. 6 of 1963, s. 2 and Sch. I. (w.e.f. 1-7-1965); Lakshadweep vide Reg. 8 of 1965, s. 3 and Sch. (w.e.f. 1-10-1967); the State of Sikkim vide Notification No. G.S.R. 41 (E), dated 27-1-1976 (w.e.f. 1-2-1976).