Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
Power to make rules.- (1) The State Government may after previous publication, by notification, make rules for carrying out the purposes of this Act. (2) In particular and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power such rules, may, provided for all or any of the following matters, namely:- (a) Prohibit or regulate,- (i) erection and use of fixed engines (ii) the construction, temporary or permanent of bunds, dams and weirs; (iii) the dimensions, kind and size of the mesh or other fishing appliances or implements and the mode of using them; (iv) the fishing and using of fishing appliances. (b) the conditions subject to which any licence under this Act may be granted or would be valid; (c) the forms to be used for any application or licence required to be made or granted under this Act, and the fees if any, therefor; (d) the species of fish which shall not be caught or captured; 9 (e) conditions subject to which lease of fishing rights may be granted and the mode of granting such lease; (f) the purposes for which a fish sanctuary may be declared under section 7; (g) prohibit or regulate the extraction of fish in any water; (h) the measures that may be taken to develop and conserve fisheries resources in any river; (i) regulate fish breeding or development of fish; (j) any other matter which is necessary to carry out the purposes of the Act or which is to be or may be prescribed under this Act. (3) Every rule made under this Act shall be laid, as soon as may be after it is made, before each House of the Legislature, which 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 immediately following the session or the successive session aforesaid, both Houses agree in making any modification in the rule or both Houses agree 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.