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Penalty for caurzng damage to hzgltway -Whoever wilfully causes or allows vehtcle 01 antmal m h1s chaa ge to cause any damage to any h1ghway shall, on convictiOn, be pum!)hablc with fine which· may extend to ten thous~tnd 1 upec'i. 35 Power to compound ojfenas.-Thc highway authority may, etthe•· befo.·c o, after the mstitutJon of the p. oceechngs, compound an offence aga1nst any p:ov1s1on o( th1s Act or the, ulcs made thereunder 1n the manner as may be prescdbed. Miscellaneous 36 Power to make rules -(1) catton in the Gazette, make • ulcs purposes of th1s Act. The GoveJ nmcnt may, by notJfi· for ca~ 1 ymg out all or any of the (2) In pa1 t1cula ·, and wtthout p1 CJUdrrc to the generality of the foregomg power, such 1·ules may provide for all or any of the foliO\-\· ing matters, namely - (a) the p.-epm a tion of 5chemes fo: the clevelopmen t of new htghways o: Improvement 01 repatr of e>.Istmg highways; (b) mission for the ~tandards that have to be followed 1n gt anting per- access to h1ghway, ( I 130 (c) the form of application for use of land between buildmg line and cont\ol hne and the fee to be patd m 1 espect thereof, (d) the prevention of obsn uctwn of view m distJ action of attention of pet sons usmg highway, and of annoyance, danget 01 InJu, y to the public; (e) the ptopet mamtenance ofbounda1 y marks demarcating htghway boundaries, (f) the p1 cventwn of obstr uctwn, encroachment and nuisances on o1· near highway and 01 damage to highway, (g) the form of application 1 equued to be made and the fm m of not1cc and the bills 1 equl' ed to be set ved on pe. sons, the cha:-ges to b<.: made fo, the supply of copies of plans 01 exu act~ and the rent m· i<'e 01 othc1 cha.·ges to be llnposed o· levied under the p1 Oviswns of thts Act, (h) the general guidance of the highway authority 1n the dischat ge of its functwns under th1s Act; (t) the constructiOn 01 laymg of public utility hnes along or ac1 oss the htghway, (J) any other matte1 which 1s to be, or may be ptescnbed. (3) Eve\ y rule made uncle: th1s Act shall be la1d, as ~oon as may be <tftcr 1t 1s made, befo. c the Legislative Assembly, wlulc 1t • ., 1n sesswn, fm a total peuod offourteen day~ which may be com- P• bed m one sesswn or m two successive sessions, and 1f, before the exptry of the scss1on 1n which 1t 1s so laid or the sesswn Immedta- tely followmg, the Lcgtslative Assembly makes any modlficatwn m the rule o!' dectdes that the 1 ules should not be made, the rule shall thereaftet have effect only m c;uch modtfied form or be of no effect, as the case may be, so. howeve., 1 hat any such modificatiOn oc annulment shall be wtthout preJudice to the vahdtty of any- thmg p1 evwusly done under that rule.