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 form of memorandum to be submitted under sub-section
3. (1) of section 5;
   • (b) the form of register to be maintained under sub-section
4. (1) of section 6;
   • (c) the period within which the memorandum is to be submitted under sub-section
5. (1) of section 5;
   • (d) the fees to be paid for the registration of a marriage and for the copies of entries in the register;
   • (e) the custody in which the register and other records shall be kept and the preservation of such register;
   • (f) any other matter which is required to be, or may be, prescribed.
6. (3) Every rule made under this section shall be laid, as soon as may be after it is made, before the Legislative Assembly, while it is in session, for a total period of fourteen days which may be comprised in one session or in two or more successive sessions, and if, before the expiry of the session immediately following the session or the successive sessions aforesaid, the House agrees in making any modification in the rule or the House agrees that the rule should not be made, the rule shall thereafter have effect only in such modified form or be of no effect, as the case may be; so, however, that any such modification or annulment shall be without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under that rule.