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[4] PENALTY FOR FAILURE TO FILE A MEMORANDUM — Any Registrar who willfully fails to file a memorandum delivered or sent» to him or to make entries in the register as required. by section 5 or section 6 shail be punishable with imprisonment which may extend .to three months or with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees or with, both. PENALTY FOR CONCEALING, DESTROYING OR ALTERmG REGISTER- Any person concealing, destroying or dishonestly or fraudulently altering the memorandum or the register or any part thereof shal} be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to two years and with fine which may extend to two thousand rupees. CHAPTER IV MISCELLANEOUS REGISTRAR TO BE PUBLIC SERVANT - Every Registrar shall be deemed to be a public servant within the meaning of section 21' ofthe Indian Penal Code, 1860 (NO. XLV of 1860). PROTECTION OF ACTION TAKEN IN GOOD FAITH — No suit, prosecution or other legal proceedings shall lie against the State Government, the Registrar General of Marriages, any Registrar or any person exercising any power or performing any duty under this Act, for anything which is done or intended'to be done in good faith in pursuance of this Act or any rules or orders made there under. 1 POWER TO MAKE RULES —- ‘ (I) The State Government may, by notification in official Gazette, make rules for carrying out the purposes ofthis Act. ' (2) In particular and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing . powers, such rules may provide for all or any the following matters, namely :- . (a) the duties and powers of the Registrar General of Marriages and the Registrars; (b) the forms and the manner in which memorandum under sections 5 and 6 shall be filed, and registers or records required to be kept by or under this Act; (e) the custody in which the registers and records are to be kept, and the preservation ofsuch registers and records; ' (d) the fees to be paid under the relevant provisions of this Act. [5] (3) Every rule made under this Act shall ”be laid, as soon as may be after it is ' made before the Legislative Assembly of Manipur, while it is in session, for a total period of thirty days which may comprise in one session or in two more successive sessions, and if, before the expiry of the session immediately following the session of successive sessions aforesaid, the House agrees. in making any modification in the rule or the House agrees that the rule should not be made, the ‘rule shall thereafier 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 ofanything previously done under that rule.