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Power to make rules.—(1) The State Government shall, by notification in the Official Gazette, make rules to carry out the purposes of this Act: Provided that the Central Government may, frame model rules in respect of all or any of the matters with respect to which the State Government is required to make rules and where any such model rules have been framed in respect of any such matter, they shall apply to the State mutatis mutandis until the rules in respect of that matter are made by the State Government and while making any such rules, they conform to such model rules. (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:— (i) manner of inquiry in case of a missing or run away child or whose parents cannot be found under sub-clause (vii) of clause (14) of section 2; (ii) responsibilities of the Child Welfare Officer attached to a Children’s Home under clause (17) of section 2; (iii) qualifications of the members of the Board under sub-section (2) of section 4; (iv) induction training and sensitisation of all members of the Board under sub-section (5) of section 4; (v) term of office of the members of the Board and the manner in which such member may resign under sub-section (6) of section 4; (vi) time of the meetings of the Board and the rules of procedure in regard to the transaction of business at its meeting under sub-section (1) of section 7; (vii) qualifications, experience and payment of fees of an interpreter or translator under clause (d) of sub-section (3) of section 8; (viii) any other function of the Board under clause (n) of sub-section (3) of section 8; (ix) persons through whom any child alleged to be in conflict with law may be produced before the Board and the manner in which such a child may be sent to an observation home or place of safety under sub-section (2) of section 10; (x) manner in which a person apprehended and not released on bail by the officer-in-charge of the police station may be kept in an observation home until such person is brought before a Board under sub-section (2) of section 12; (xi) format for information on pendency in the Board to the Chief Judicial Magistrate or the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate and District Magistrate on quarterly basis under sub-section (3) of section 16; 46 (xii) monitoring procedures and list of monitoring authorities under sub-section (2) of section 20; (xiii) manner in which the relevant records of the child may be destroyed by the Board, police or the court under sub-section (2) of section 24; (xiv) qualifications of the members of the Child Welfare Committee under sub-section (5) of section 27; 1[(xiva) the form of report submitted to the District Magistrate under sub-section (8) of Section 27;] (xv) rules and procedures with regard to transaction of business at the meetings of the Child Welfare Committee under sub-section (1) of section 28; (xvi) process of restoration of abandoned or lost children to their families under clause (x) of section 30; (xvii) manner of submitting the report to the Committee and the manner of sending and entrusting the child to Children’s Home or fit facility or fit person under sub-section (2) of section 31; (xviii) manner of holding an inquiry by the Child Welfare Committee under sub-section (1) of section 36; (xix) manner in which a child may be sent to a Specialised Adoption Agency if the child is below six years of age, Children’s Home or to a fit facility or person or foster family, till suitable means of rehabilitation are found for the child including manner in which situation of the child placed in a Children’s Home or with a fit facility or person or foster family, may be reviewed by the Committee under sub-section (3) of section 36; (xx) manner in which a quarterly report may be submitted by the Committee to the District Magistrate for review of pendency of cases under sub-section (4) of section 36; (xxi) any other order related to any other function of the Committee under clause (iii) of sub-section (2) of section 37; (xxii) information to be given every month by the Committee to State Agency and Authority regarding number of children declared legally free for adoption and number of cases pending under sub-section (5) of section 38; 1[(xxiia) the form of quarterly report regarding restored, dead and runaway children under sub-section (4) of Section 40;] (xxiii) manner in which all institutions under this Act shall be registered under sub-section (1) of section 41; (xxiv) procedure for cancelling or withholding registration of an institution that fails to provide rehabilitation and re-integration services under sub-section (7) of section 41; (xxv) manner in which information shall be sent every month by the open shelter to the District Child Protection Unit and Committee under sub-section (3) of section 43; (xxvi) procedure for placing children in foster care including group foster care under sub-section (1) of section 44; (xxvii) procedure for inspection of children in foster care under sub-section (4) of section 44; (xxviii) manner in which foster family shall provide education, health and nutrition to the child under sub-section (6) of section 44; (xxix) procedure and criteria in which foster care services shall be provided to children under sub- section (7) of section 44;