Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
(1) The State Government may, by notifica- tion, make rules for carrying out the purposes of this Act. (2) Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power, such rules may prescribe the period within which a near relative shall claim the body of a deceased person. I (3) Every rule made under this section shall be laid as soon as may be after it is made before 1 [* *] the State Legislature while it is in session for a total period of ten 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 ses- sion immediately following, 2[the Legislature] agree in making any modification in the rule or ~[ the Legis- lature] agree 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 pre- viously done under that rule. 1The words "each House of" omitted by the Adaptation of Punjab Laws Order, 1970. :?Substituted for the words "the Legislative" by ibid.