Power to make rules

Power to make rules.

1. (1) The State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, make rules to carry out the purposes of this Act.
2. (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 prohibition or regulation by licensing or otherwise of mining, quarrying, excavating, blasting and other operations of a like nature on any protected area or the construction of buildings on any such area or the practice of any cultivation or irrigation on such area which may cause injury or damage to any such area;
   • (b) the preservation, maintenance and protection of protected monuments;
   • (c) the forms of reports to be made by the Director;
   • (d) the form of license to be granted by the Director for the excavation of any archaeological site or remains;
   • (e) the fees to be charged for the grant of any such license;
   • (f) the manner in which the public may be allowed access to any protected monument or protected area and the fees to be charged for such access;
   • (g) any other matter which is to be or may be prescribed under this Act.
3. (3) The power to make rules conferred by this section shall be subject to the condition of previous publication.
4. (4) All rules made under this section shall be laid for not less than thirty days before the State Legislature as soon as may be after they are made and shall be subject to such modifications as the State Legislature may make during the session in which they are so laid or the session immediately following.