Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
(1) The State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, make rules for carrying out the purposes of this Act. (2) In particular and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing powers, such rules may be made for all or any of the following matters, namely:— (a) Procedure for convening meetings of the Board, quorum and conduct of business by the Board; (b) the appointment, promotion, suspension, removal and dismissal of officers and employees of the Board; (c) the terms and conditions of service of persons who become employees of the Board under clause (f) of Section 20; (d) any other matter which is incidental to, or necessary for, the purpose of regulating the 69 appointment and conditions of service of its employees; (e) leave, leave allowances, pensions, gratuities, compassionate allowances and travelling allowances of the officers and employees and the establishment and maintenance of a provident fund or any other fund for their welfare; (f) fees and allowances payable to the members of the Board or any of its committees under section 13; (g) the form and manner of executing contracts under section 24; (h) the terms and conditions on which the Board may raise loans under sub-section (1) of Section 55; (i) the terms and conditions of appointment of persons as member of a Local Advisory Committee under sub-section (1) of Section 106 and (j) any other matter which is to be or may be prescribed by rules. (3) All rules made under this Act shall come into force from the date of their publication in the Official Gazette. (4) Every rule made under this Act shall be laid, as soon as, after it is made, before the State Legislative Assembly, while it is in session for a total period of thirty days, which may be comprised in one session or in two or more successive sessions, and if, before expiry of the session in which it is so laid or the session immediately following, the house makes any modification in the rule or decides that the rule should not be made, and notifies its decision to that effect in the Official Gazette, the rule shall, from the date of 70 publication of such decision in the Official Gazette, have effect only in such modified form or be of no effect, as the case may be: Provided that any such modification or annulment shall cast no adverse effect on anything previously done or omitted to be done under that rule. Power to make regulations. 110.(1) The Board may, with previous approval of the State Government, make regulations consistent with this Act, and the rules made thereunder, to carry out the purposes of this Act. (2) Without prejudice to the generality of this power, such regulations may provide for all or any of the following matters, namely :— (a) the time and place of the meetings of the committees, the procedure to be followed for the transaction of business at any such meetings and the number of members necessary to constitute a quorum at such meetings; (b) the form of receipt to be given under sub- section (2) of Section 32; (c) the period within which notice may be given under sub-section (2) of Section 33; (d) the guidance of persons employed by the Board under this Act; (e) the safe, efficient and convenient use, management and control of the docks, wharves, quays, jetties, buildings and other works constructed or acquired by or vested in the Board or of any land or foreshore acquired by or vested in the Board under this Act; (f) the reception, porter age, storage and removal of goods brought within the premises of the 71 Board, for the exclusive conduct of these operations by the Board or persons employed by the Board, and for declaring the procedure to be followed for taking charge of goods which may have been damaged before landing or alleged to have been so damaged; (g) maintaining cleanliness of the port, river or basins or the bank of the river and the works of the Board, and for preventing filth or rubbish being thrown thereon; (h) the mode of payment of rates leviable by the Board under this Act; (i) regulating, declaring and defining the docks, wharves, quays, jetties, stages and piers vested in the Board on which goods shall be landed from vessels and shipped on Board vessels; (j) regulating the manner in which and the conditions under which the loading and unloading of all vessels within the port or port approaches shall be carried out; (k) regulating the lighterage of cargo between ships or between ships and shore or between shore and ships; (l) the exclusion from the premises of the Board of disorderly or other undesirable persons and of trespassers; (m) ensuring the safety of the port; (n) generally for the efficient and proper administration of the ports; (o) the person, if any, authorised to sign and the mode of affixing the corporate seal and of attestation of documents relating to board securities issued or to be issued by the Board; 72 (p) the manner in which payment of interest in respect of such board securities to be made, recorded and acknowledged; (q) the circumstances and the manner in which board securities may be renewed; (r) the circumstances in which such securities must be renewed before further payment of interest thereon can be claimed; (s) the form in which such securities delivered for renewal, conversion, consolidation or sub- division are to be receipted; (t) the proof which is to be produced by a person applying for duplicate securities; (u) the form and manner of publication of the notification mentioned in sub-section (2) of section 62 and the manner of publication of the list mentioned in sub-section (3) of that section; (v) the nature and amount of indemnity to be given by a person applying for the payment of interest on the board securities alleged to have been wholly or partly lost, stolen or destroyed, or for the issue of duplicate board securities; (w) the conditions subject to which the board securities may be converted, consolidated or sub-divided; (x) the amount for which stock certificate may be issued and the fees to be levied in respect of the issue of stock certificate; (y) generally all matters connected with issue of duplicate of securities, and renewal, conversion, consolidation and sub-division of securities; (z) procedure and fees for allowing tourists and visitors to the port; 73 (aa) any other matter, which is to be, or may be prescribed by regulations. Provisions with respect to regulations.