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(1) Subject to the provisions of this Act and of any other law and to such rules as may be prescribed, a Panchayat may with the approval of the Government make bye-laws for carrying out any of the purposes for which it is constituted. (2) In making a bye-law the Panchayat may provide that any person who commits a breach thereof, shall be liable to pay by way of penalty such sums as may be fixed by the Panchayat not exceeding [ten thousand rupees], or, in case of a continuing breach [two hundred rupees] for every day during which the breach continues after a penalty has been levied for the first breach. (3) The Government shall have power to make rules regarding the procedure for the making of bye-laws, the publication thereof and the date on which they shall come into effect. Substituted by ACT 5 OF 2024 published in K.G.Ext. No. 819 dt. 04/03/2024 (09/12/2023). Prior to the Substitution it read as "one thousand rupees" "fifty rupees"