Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
Power to make rules.- (1) The Government may, by notification and after previous publication, make rules to carry out all or any of 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 rights of Good Samaritans in hospitals; (b) the treatment of Good Samaritans as witnesses by the police: Provided that any such rule issued by the Government shall be considered as invalid if inconsistent with the existing rights of a Good Samaritan granted under the provisions of this Act; (c) simplified court proceedings; (d) protection and treatment of medical professionals as witnesses; and (e) any other matter for which there is no provision in this Act (including prescribing Appellate Authorities, periods within which appeals or revision petitions have to be filled), and for which provision is, in the opinion of the Government, necessary for giving effect to the purposes of this Act. (3) A rule under this Act may be made with retrospective effect and when such a rule is made the reasons for making the rule shall be specified in a statement laid before both Houses of the State Legislature. Subject to any modification made under sub-section (4). Every rule made under this Act shall have effect as if enacted in this Act. (4) Every rule made under this Act shall be laid down as soon as may be before each House of the State Legislature while it is in session for a total period of thirty 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 immediately following both the Houses agree in making any modification in the rule or both the Houses agree that the rule shall not be made, the rule shall thereafter have 9 effect 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.