Chapter V MISCELLANEOUS

No court shall question the validity of any direction or order issued under this Act.

No suit, prosecution or other legal proceeding shall lie against any person for any thing which is in good faith done or intended to be done under this Act.

The Government may, by notification in the Andhra Pradesh Gazette, direct that any power exercisable by them under this Act except the power under section 22 may also be exercised subject to such conditions, if any, as may be laid down in the notification, by such officer not below the rank of a District Collector as may be specified therein.

The Government may, by notification in the Andhra Pradesh Gazette, 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 form of notice under section 4 and the manner in which such notice may be served; (b) the form of the register of habitual offenders and the particulars to be entered therein; (c) the authority to whom and the manner in which any change or intended change of ordinary residence shall be notified under sub-section (1) of section 7. (d) the nature of restrictions to be observed by registered offenders whose movements have been restricted; (e) the grant of certificate of identity to the registered offenders and inspection of such certificates; (f) the conditions under which the offenders may be permitted to leave the area to which their movements have been restricted or the corrective settlements in which they have been placed; (g) the terms upon which the offenders may be discharged from corrective settlements; (h) the working, management, control and supervision of corrective settlements including the discipline and conduct of the offenders placed therein; (i) the conditions for, and the manner of, approving or certifying privately-managed settlements; (j) the appointment of non-official visitors to the corrective settlements; (k) the conditions and circumstances under which members of the families of the offenders may be permitted to stay with them in a corrective settlement; (1) the periodical review of the cases of all the offenders whose movements have been restricted or who are placed in corrective settlements under this Act; (m) any other matter which is to be or may be prescribed under this Act. (3) In making rules under this Act, the Government may provide that a contravention of any of the rules shall be punishable with fine which may extend to Rs. 100. (4) All rules made under this Act shall, as soon as may be after they are made, be laid for not less than fourteen days before both Houses of the State Legislature and shall be subject to such modifications, whether by way of repeal or amendment, as the State Legislature may make during the session in which they are so laid.

The Andhra Pradesh (Andhra Area) Restriction of Habitual Offenders Act, 1948 (Act VI of 1948), and the Andhra Pradesh (Telangana Area) Habitual Offenders (Restriction and Settlement) Act, 1954 (Act XXII of 1954), are hereby repealed; but such repeal shall not affect the previous operation of the said Acts or anything done or suffered thereunder, and subject thereto, anything done or any action taken under the provisions of the said Acts shall, in so far as such thing or action is not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, be deemed to have been done or taken, under the provisions of this Act, as if the said provisions were in force when such thing was done or such action was taken and shall continue to be in force accordingly, unless and until superseded by anything done or any action taken under this Act.