Power to make and enforce acceptance of model bye-laws

(1) The Government may make model bye-laws on all or any of the matters in respect of which a Council is empowered to make bye-laws and publish them in the Official Gazette for the guidance of the Council. (2) If a Council has not already made bye-laws on a matter for which model bye-laws are made by the Government, the Council may adopt the model bye-laws with such minimum changes as the peculiar local circumstances may warrant. (3) If at any time it appears to the Director that the bye-laws made by a Council on any matters are inadequate to regulate such matters, and model bye-laws have been made by the Government for such matters, the Director may by an order in this behalf require the Council to adopt such model bye-laws modified to suit local conditions. (4) The Council shall comply with orders of the Director under sub-section (3) above within two months of the date of such order. (5) If the Council fails to comply with the orders of the Director, the Director may, by notification in the Official Gazette, apply such model bye-laws with such modification to suit local conditions as he thinks necessary to that Council in supersession of any bye-laws which the Council may have made already on those matters. In that event, the model bye-laws so applied shall be deemed to have been duly made by the Council. (6) If the model bye-laws made by the Government relate to the imposition, abolition, remission, alteration or regulation of any tax, the provision of sub-sections (3), (4) and (5) shall apply as if for the word “Director” therein the word “Government” had been substituted.