Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
(1) The Government may, by notification, make rules to carry out the purposes of this Act, (2) In particular and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power, such rules may provide for- (a) all matters expressly required or allowed by this Act to be prescribed; (b) the intervals, if any, at which returns under section 5 shall be submitted; (c) the maintenance of accounts and registers and the submission of returns and statements by operators; (d) the manner of serving notices of demand under this Act; (e) the duties and powers of officers appointed for the purpose of enforcing the provisions of this Act; (f) generally regulating the procedure to be followed and the forms to be adopted in proceedings under this Act; (g) any other matter for which there is no provision or no sufficient provision in this Act and for which provision is, in the opinion of the Government, necessary for: giving effect to the purposes of this Act. (3) The power to make rules conferred by this section, shall, except on the first occasion of the exercise of, be subject to the condition of the rules being made after previous publication for a period of not less than one month, (4) Every rule made under this section and every notification issued under section 19 shall be laid as soon as possible 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, make any modification in the rule or notification or decide that the rule or notification should not be issued, the rule or notification 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 or notification.