Power to make rules

Power to make rules.

1. (1) The State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, make rules for carrying 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 regulation or prohibition of the production, supply and distribution of, and trade and commerce in, any essential commodity;
   • (b) the collection of any information or statistics with a view to regulating or prohibiting any of the aforesaid matters;
   • (c) the persons by whom, and the manner in which, any notification or order under this Act shall be authenticated;
   • (d) any other matter which is to be, or may be, prescribed under this Act.
3. (3) All rules made under this section shall be laid for not less than thirty days before the State Legislature as soon as possible after they are made and shall be subject to rescission by the State Legislature or to such modification as the State Legislature may make during the session in which they are so laid or the session immediately following.
4. (4) Any rescission or modification so made by the State Legislature shall be published in the Official Gazette and shall thereupon take effect.