Power to make rules

21. (1) The State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, and subject to the previous publication, make rules for carrying out the purposes of this Act.

1. (2) In particular and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing powers, such rules may provide for all or any of the following matters, namely: -
   • (a) the powers and duties of the Registrar under section 3;
   • (b) the form and the manner in which register of marriages and records required to be maintained and the form of certificate of registration of marriage to be issued under section 11;
   • (c) the custody in which the register and records are to be kept and the preservation of such registers and records;
   • (d) the fees to be paid under section 7 and 12;
   • (e) creating awareness for registration of marriages;
   • (f) any other matter which may be or requires to be prescribed.
2. (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 modifications as the State Legislature may make during the session in which they are so laid or the session immediately following.
3. (4) Any rescission or modification so made by the State Legislature shall be published in the Official Gazette, and shall thereupon take effect.