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(1) The Administrator may, after previous publication make rules for carrying out the purposes of this Act. (2) In particular and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power, such rules may provide for all or any of the following matters namely, - (a) the holidays and other occasions on account of which a notification may be issued under sub-section (4) of section 5; (b) the business operations in connection with which and the periods during which, persons employed in shops and establishments for public entertainment and amusement may work overtime or in excess of the limit provided respectively in sections 7 and 10; (c) the manner of a calculating ordinary rates of wages for the purposes of sections 11 and 13; (d) the records and registers to be maintained and the notices to be displayed, by a shop-keeper and the employer under section14; (e) the manner of appointment and qualification of Inspectors appointed under section 19; (f) the manner in which Inspectors appointed under section 19 shall exercise the powers conferred by section 20; and (g) any matter which may be, or is required to be prescribed under this Act. (3) Any rule made under this section may provide that any person committing a breach thereof shall on conviction, be punishable with fine, which may extend to one hundred rupees and where the breach is a continuing one, with a further fine which may extend to twenty-five rupees for every day, after the first during which the breach continues, (4) Every rule made under this section shall be laid as soon as may be after it is made before Legislative Assembly while it is in session for a total period of fourteen 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 session immediately following the House agrees in making any modification in the rule or the House agrees 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 modification or annulment shall be without prejudice to the validity of anything done under that rule. Repeal and Savings 26.(1) The Bengal Shops and establishments Act, 1940 (here in after referred to as the said Act) as extended to Tripura under Section 2 of the Union Territories (Laws) Act, 1940 (30 of 1950) is hereby repealed. (2) Notwithstanding the repeal of the said Act anything done or any action taken or any proceedings started or any appeal preferred or any legal effect produced by or under the provisions of the proceedings shall be deemed to have been done, taken started, preferred, or produced by or under the corresponding provisions of this Act as if such corresponding provision where in force on the day on which such thing was done or such proceeding was started or such appeal was preferred or such legal produced: Provided that any weekly closing days or any working hours fixed under the said Act and in force immediately before the commencement of this Act, may be continued for a period not longer than three months after such repeal.