Bare ActsThe CITIZENSHIP ACT, 1955

Section 18

Power to make rules

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Power to make rules.-(1) The Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette make rules to carry out the purposes of this Act. (2) In particular and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power, such rules may provide for- (a) the registration of anything required or authorized under this Act to be registered, and the conditions and restrictions in regard to such registration; 3[(aa) the form and manner in which a declaration under sub-section (1) of section 4 shall be made;] (b) the forms to be used and the registers to be maintained under this Act; (c) the administration and taking of oaths of allegiance under this Act and the time within which, and the manner in which, such oaths shall be taken and recorded; (d) the giving of any notice required or authorized to be given by any person under this Act; rl (e) the cancellation of the registration of, and the cancellation and amendment of certificate of naturalisation relating to, persons deprived of citizenship under this Act, and the delivering up of such certificates for those purposes; 4[(ee) the manner and form in which and the authority to whom declarations referred to in clauses (a) and (b) of sub-section (b) of section 6A shall be submitted and other matters connected with such declarations;] (f) the registration at Indian consulates of the births and deaths of persons of any class or description born or dying outside India; (g) the levy and collection of fees in respect of applications, registrations, declarations and certificates under this Act, in respect of the taking of an oath of allegiance, and in respect of the supply of certified or other copies of documents;

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