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- (a) prescribing the procedure in accordance with which a licence may be obtained and the terms, conditions and restrictions, if any, subject to which licence may be granted under this Act; (b) providing for the regulation of cinematograph exhibitions for securing the public safety; (c) prescribing the time within which and the conditions subject to which an appeal under sub-section (3) of section 5 may be preferred; (d) regulating the means of entrance and exit at places licensed THE HIMACHAL PRADESHCINEMAS (REGULATION) ACT, 1979 5 under this Act, and providing for prevention of disturbances thereat; (e) regulating or prohibiting the sale of any ticket or pass for admission by whatever name called to a place licensed under this Act. (2) In making rules under this section the Government may provide that any person failing to comply with or contravening the provisions of any rule shall, on conviction, be punished with fine which may extend to one thousand rupees. A failure to comply with, or on contravention of the provisions of a rule made under clause (e) of sub-section (1) shall be a cognizable offence within the meaning of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (2 of 1974). (3) The power to make rules under this section shall be subject to the condition of previous publication in the Official Gazette. (4) Every rule made under this Act shall be laid, as soon as may be, after it is made, before the Legislative Assembly while it is in session, for a total period of not less than fourteen days which may be comprised in one session or in two or more successive sessions, and if before the expiry of the session in which it is so laid or the sessions aforesaid, the Legislative Assembly makes any modification in the rule or decides 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.