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Power for financial commissioner to make rules.- (1) The Fi- nancial Commissioner, .may in addition to the other rules which may be made by him under this Act, makes rules consistent with this Act and any other enactment for the time being in force,- (a) determining notwithstanding anything in any record-of-rights, the number and amount of the instalments and times by and at which rent is to be paid; (b) for the guidance of Revenue Officers is determining for the purposes of this Act, the amount of the land revenue of any land; (c) presIcribing, for all or any of the territories to which this Act extends, the periods during which, in proceedings held under this Act, a Revenue Officer or Revenue Court is not, except for reasons of urgency to be recorded, to issue any process of ar- rest against a tenant or against a landowner who cultivates his own land; (d) regulating the procedure in cases where persons are entitled to inspect records of Revenue Offices or Revenue Courts, or to ob- tain copies of the same and prescribing the fees payable for searches and copies; (e) prescribing forms for such books, entries, statistics and ac- counts as the Financial Commissioner thinks necessary to be kept, made or complied in Revenue Offices or Revenue Courts or sub- mitted to any authority; (f) declaring what shall be the language of any of those offices and Courts, and determining in what cases persons practisingin those offices and Courts shall be permitted to address the-Presiding Of- ficers thereof in English and. (g) generally for the guidance of Revenue Officers and other per- sons in matters connected-with the enforcement of this Act. (2) Until rules are made under clause (a) of sub-section (1), rent shall be payable by the instalments and at the times by and at which it is now payable. Sections:- 106(A) -109 (3) Rules made by the Financial Commissioner under this or any other section of this Act shall [be made subject to the control of] (Subs. for the words. "shall not take effect until they have been sanctioned by" by the decentralization Act, 1914 (4 of 1914) the [State] (Subs. for word "Provin- cial" by the Adaptation of Laws Order, 1950) Government. Punjab Amendment 106-A. Licencinq of petition writers in revenue courts and revenue officers.— (1) No person shall practise as a petition writer in any Revenue Court or Revenue Office, unless he has been licensed under rules made under this Act (Ins. by Punjab Act 18 of 1969. Section 2) (2) A person who contravenes the provisions of sub-section (1) shall be liable to the prescribed penalty which shall not exceed fifty rupees in any case. (3) The Financial Commissioner may, from time to time, make rules (consistent with this Act and other enactments) for the time being in force: (i) declaring what persons shall be permitted to act as petition writ- ers in the Revenue Courts and Revenue Offices; (ii) regulating the issue, suspension and revocation of licences to such persons, the fees payable for the issue of licences, the con- duct of business by them and the scale of fees to be charged by them; and (iii) providing for the penalty that may be imposed under sub-sec- tion (2), the authority who shall be competent to impose penalty under that sub-section and the authority to whom an appeal against an order of refusal to issue a licence or suspension or revocation of licence or imposition of penalty shall lie.]