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(1) The Government may, by notification in the Gazette, make rules for carrying out the purposes of this Act. (2) In particular and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing powers such rules may provide- (a) the period within which a near relative may claim the body of a deceased person; (b) the procedure for the disposal of an unclaimed body under Section 4; (c) the conditions under which institutions may be recognised for purposes of Section 4(3); (d) the manner in which the body may be preserved from decay; (e) the procedure for proceedings under Section 5(1); (f) matters which are to be and may be prescribed. [5][5.(3) 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 fourteen 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 Legislative Assembly makes, any modification in the rule or decides that the rule should not be made, the rule shall there after have effect only in such modified from 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] Inserted by Act 23 of 1988