Bare ActsThe Kerala State Commission for the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes Act 2007

Section 16

Power to make rules

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Power to make rules.—(1) The Government may, by notification in the Gazette, make rules for carrying out the purposes of this Act, either prospectively or retrospectively. (2) In particular, and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing powers, such rules may provide for all or any of the following matters, namely:— (a) salary and allowances payable to, and the other terms and conditions of service of the Chairperson and the members under sub-section (5) of section 4 and of the officers and other employees under sub-section (2) of section 5; (b) the form in which the annual report shall be prepared under clause (d) of section 9; (c) the form, in which the annual statement of accounts shall be maintained under sub-section (1) of section 13; and (d) any other matter which is required to be, or may be, prescribed. 8 (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 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.

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