Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
Power to make Rules.– (1) The Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, make rules for carrying out the purposes of this Act. (2) Without prejudice to the generality of the provisions of sub-section (1) such rules may prescribe the period within which a near relative shall claim the body of a deceased person. (3) Every rule made under this section shall be laid as soon as may be after it is made, before the Legislative Assembly of the Union territory of Goa, Daman and Diu while it is in session for a total period of thirty 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, the Assembly agrees in making any modification in the rule or the Assembly agrees that the rule should not be made, the rule 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 rule. Secretariat, K. C. D. GANGWANI, Panaji-Goa. Secretary to the Government of Goa, Daman and Diu 9th November, 1976. Law and Judiciary Department. (Published in the Official Gazette Series I, No. 34 dated 18-11-1976).