Power of State Government to make rules regulating import etc. of petroleum

The State Government may make rules (a) providing for the manner in which, an application for a licence under section 38 shall be made, and conditions under which such licence shall be granted, renewed or held; (b) providing for the period for which a licence granted or renewed under this section shall be in force; (c) providing the condition on the breach of non-observance of which a licence granted or renewed under section 38 may be cancelled or withdrawn. Provided that no licence granted or renewed under section 38 shall be cancelled or the holder of the licence a reasonable opportunity of being heard, (d) providing for the places where petroleum may he imported, and prohibiting its import elsewhere, (e) regulating the import, export or transport of petroleum, (f) providing for the disposal, by confiscation or otherwise, of any petroleum in respect of which a licence has not been applied for within the prescribed period or has been refused, cancelled or withdrawn, and which has not been exported: (g) specifying the nature and condition of all receptacles and pipe-lines in which, or by which, petroleum may be transported; (h) regulating the places at which, and the conditions subject to which, petroleum may be stored; (i) specifying the nature and condition of all receptacles in which petroleum may be stored; (j) determining the cases or class of cases in which a licence for the transport of petroleum shall be obtained by the consignee, consignor or carrier, (k) specifying the proportion in which any specified poisonous substance may be added to petroleum and prohibiting the import, export, transport or storage of petroleum in which the proportion of each such poisonous substance exceeds the prescribed proportion; (l) generally providing for any matter which is in its opinion expedient for proper control over the import, export, transport or storage of petroleum.