Bare ActsThe WATER (PREVENTION AND CONTROL OF POLLUTION) ACT, 1974

Section 63

Power of Central Government to make rules

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Power of Central Government to make rules.—(1) The Central Government may, simultaneously with the constitution of the Central Board, make rules in respect of the matters specified in sub-section (2): Provided that when the Central Board has been constituted, no such rule shall be made, varied, amended or repealed without consulting the Board. (2) In particular, and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power, such rules may provide for all or any of the following matters, namely:— (a) the terms and conditions of service of the members (other than the chairman and member-secretary) of the Central Board under sub-section (8) of section 5; (b) the intervals and the time and place at which meetings of the Central Board or of any committee thereof constituted under this Act, shall be held and the procedure to be followed at such meetings, including the quorum necessary for the transaction of business under section 8, and under sub-section (2) of section 9; (c) the fees and allowances to be paid to such members of a committee of the Central Board as are not members of the Board under sub-section (3) of section 9; 1[(d) the manner in which and the purposes for which persons may be associated with the Central Board under sub-section (1) of section 10 and the fees and allowances payable to such persons;] (e) the terms and conditions of service of the chairman and the member-secretary of the Central Board under sub-section (9) of section 5 and under sub-section (1) of section 12; (f) conditions subject to which a person may be appointed as a consulting engineer to the Central Board under sub-section (4) of section 12; (g) the powers and duties to be exercised and performed by the chairman and the member-secretary of the Central Board; 2* * * * * (j) the form of the report of the Central Board analyst under sub-section (1) of section 22; (k) the form of the report of the Government analyst under sub-section (3) of section 22;

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