Power of the Government to make rules

Power of the Government to make rules.--(1) Government may make rules for all or any of the following purposes, namely :--

1. (a) to prescribe forms for any proceeding under this Act ;
2. (b) to prescribe places of detention and regulate the care and treatment of persons detained under section 8 or section 16 ;
3. (c) to regulate the detention, care, treatment and discharge of criminal lunatics;
4. (d) to regulate the management of asylums and the care and custody of the inmates thereof and their transfer from one asylum to another;
5. (e) to regulate the transfer of criminal lunatics to asylums;
6. (f) to prescribe the procedure to be followed by District Courts and Magistrates before a lunatic is sent to any asylum established by Government;
7. (g) to prescribe the asylums established by Government within the province to which lunatics from any area or any class of lunatics shall be sent;
8. (h) to prescribe conditions subject to which asylums may be licensed;
   • (i) save as otherwise provided in this Act, generally to carry into effect the provisions of the Act.

1. (2) In making any rule under this section the Government may direct that a breach of it shall be punishable with fine which may extend to fifty rupees.