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(1) When the birth of any child has been registered and the name, if any, by which it was registered is altered or, if it was registered without a name, when a name is given to it, the parent or guardian of such child or other person procuring such name to be altered or given may, within twelve months next after the registration of the birth, deliver to the registrar, such certificate as hereinafter mentioned, and registrar, upon the receipt of that certificate shall without any erasure of the original entry, forthwith enter in the register-book the name mentioned in the certificate as having been given to the child. (2) The certificate shall be in the form of Schedule T, or as near thereto as circumstances admit, and, in the case of Christian, shall be signed by the minister or person who performed the rite of baptism upon which the name was given or altered, or, if the child is not baptised or is not a Christian, shall be signed by the father, mother or guardian of the child or other person procuring the name of the child to be given or altered. (3) Every minister or person who performs the rite of baptism shall deliver the certificate required by this section on demand on payment of a fee not exceeding one rupee. Registration of name of child or of alteration of name. [Act No. II of 1956] 391 CHAPTER XVI. RULES & BYE-LAWS. 337[585. (1) The Government may, by notification in the *Telangana Gazette, make rules for carrying out all or any of the purposes of this Act. (2) In making any such rule, the Government may direct that a breach thereof shall be punishable with a fine which may extend to rupees five hundred and if the breach is a continuing one a further fine which may extend to rupees twenty for every day after the first day during which the breach has been made. (3) 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 the date on which the modification or annulment is notified in the *Telangana Gazette, 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.]