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Inserted by Act No.6 of 1974. [Act No. 17 of 1968] 61 (i) providing for the destruction or other disposal of any intoxicant deemed to be unfit for use; (j) regulating disposal of confiscated articles; (k) regulating the grant of expenses to witnesses and to persons charged with offences under this Act, and subsequently released or acquitted; (l) regulating the power of #[prohibition and excise officers] to summon the witnesses; (m) prescribing the tax payable to the Government in respect of excise trees from which toddy is drawn; (n) constituting mobile courts of Magistrates in consultation with the High Court, for the trial of offences against any provisions of this Act or the rules or orders made thereunder; (o) any other matter that may be prescribed under this Act. (3) Any rules under this Act may be made with retrospective effect and when such a rule is made, the reasons for making the rule shall be specified in a statement to be laid before both Houses of the State Legislature. (4) Every rule made under this Act, shall, immediately after it is made be laid before each House of the State Legislature if it is in session and if it is not in session, in the session immediately following for a total period of fourteen days which may be comprised in one session or in two successive sessions and if, before the expiration of the session in which it is so laid or the session immediately following, both Houses agree in making any modification in the rule or in the annulment of the rule, the rule shall, from 62 [Act No. 17 of 1968] the date on which modification or annulment is notified, have effect only in such modified form or shall stand annulled, as the case may be; so however that any such modification or annulment shall be without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under that rule.