Power to make rules

12.

1. (1) The Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, make rules to carry out the provisions 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 categories of consumers who could avail, different types of services under this Act;
   • (b) fees, tariffs, service connection charges and any other applicable charges, penalty and fines for non-payment thereof for different categories of consumers;
   • (c) Form of application to be made under sub-section
3. (2) of section 3, form of affidavits, undertaking, no objection certificates or other documents, if any, to be accompanied with application, form of agreement to be made with Public Health Engineering Department
   • (PHED) for use of sewerage system or to avail sanitation services under this Act;
   • (d) the methods for payment of bills including billing cycles and period for payment and grace period, if any, recovery of arrears, grant of concessions for any charges or effecting the payments in particular manner;
   • (e) procedure to be followed for redressal of disputes;
   • (f) technical parameters for building sewerage system and characteristics of sewage or polluted water that can enter the sewerage system;
   • (g) composition of technical Committee and allocation of specified functions to it for the purposes of this Act;
   • (h) manner of making an appeal against the order passed by Public Health Engineering Department (PHED), as specified in section 8;
     • (i) restricting the entry of sewage, trade effluent, polluted water and other such liquid or solid waste in public sewer;
   • (j) any other matter which is required to be provided by rules by the Government.
4. (3) Every rule made by the Government under this section shall be laid as soon as may be after it is made, before the State Legislature.