Bare ActsProhibition Act, 1950

Section 62

Power to make rules.

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(1) [State Government] may make rules for the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions of this Act. (2) In particular and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing provision, [State Government] may make rules,- (a) for the issue of licences and permits and the enforcement of the conditions thereof. (b) prescribing the powers to be exercised and the duties to be performed by paid and honorary Prohibition Officers in furtherance of the objects of this Act; [(bb) prescribing the ways in which the duty under Section 26 may be levied.] (c) determining the local jurisdiction of Police and Prohibition Officers in regard to inquiries and the exercise of preventive and investigating powers; (d) authorising any officer or person to exercise any power or perform any duty under this Act; (e) prescribing the powers and duties of prohibition committees and the members thereof and the intervals at which the members of such committees shall make their reports; (f) regulating the delegation by the Commissioner or by Collectors or other District Officers of any powers conferred on them by or under this Act; (g) regulating the cultivation of the hemp plant, the collection of those portions of such plant from which intoxicating drugs can be manufactured and the manufacture of such drugs therefrom; (h) declaring how denatured spirit shall be manufactured; (i) declaring in what cases or clauses of cases and to what authorities appeals shall lie from orders, whether original or appellate, passed under this Act or under any rule made thereunder, or by what authorities such orders may be revised, and prescribing the time and manner of presenting appeals, and the procedure for dealing therewith; (j) for the grant of batta to witnesses, and of compensation for loss of time to persons released under sub-section (3) of Section 46 on the ground that they have been improperly arrested and to persons charged before a Magistrate with offences under this Act and acquitted; (k) regulating the power of Police and Prohibition Officers to summon witnesses from a distance under Section 50; and (l) for the disposal of articles confiscated and of the proceeds thereof; [(m) for the prevention of the use of medicinal or toilet preparations for any purpose other than medicinal or toilet; (n) for all matters expressly required or allowed by this Act to be prescribed. (3) All rules made under this section shall be laid before the Legislative Assembly for not less than fourteen days as soon as possible after they are made and shall be subject so such modifications as the Assembly may make during the session in which they are so laid or the session immediately following.] Adapted by K.A.L Order, 1956. Added by Act 25 of 1960. Added by Act 25 of 1960.