section 18
Power to make rules.
The Sikkim Electronic Entertainment Games (Control and Tax) Act, 2002(1) The State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, and subject to the condition of previous publication, make rules for carrying out the purposes of this Act. (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 games of chances/entertainment which shall be Electronic Entertainment Games for the purposes of this Act and the rules to be observed in playing such games; (b) the form and manner of making application for a license and the fees to be paid for its grant or renewal and the conditions subject to which it may be granted; (c) the manner of keeping accounts relating to a Electronic Entertainment Games, the other particulars to be shown in the accounts, and the form in which and the intervals at which they shall be submitted to the State Government, or to the officer authorised; (d) the restrictions or conditions with regard to the age or other conditions of the persons who may be admitted to, or employed in, an Electronic Entertainment Centre or who may be permitted to play Electronic Entertainment Games or otherwise take part in the organisation or exhibition of such games; (e) the other restrictions or conditions with regard to the admission of the participants and guests to an Electronic Entertainment Games and the fees to be charged for admission; (f) the hours and days when an Electronic Entertainment Centre may be kept open; (g) the types and specifications of the places which may be used for housing an Electronic Entertainment Centre and the localities where Electronic Entertainment Centre may be situated and the maximum number of licenses which may be granted in any area or locality; (h) the types of notices to be exhibited and the manner in which they are to be exhibited in or outside an Electronic Entertainment Centre; (i) the restrictions or conditions with regard to the advertisements pertaining to an Electronic Entertainment Games; (j) the restrictions or conditions with regard to providing credit facilities by the licensee to the participants in Electronic Entertainment Games and the prohibition or regulation of participation by proxy in Electronic Entertainment Games; (k) any other matter which is required to be or may be prescribed. (3) In making any rule the State Government may direct that a breach thereof by a licensee or by any person acting on his behalf shall, on conviction, be punished with fine not exceeding fifteen thousand rupees and a breach thereof by any other person shall on conviction, be punished with fine not exceeding three thousand rupees. (4) Every rule made under this section shall be laid as soon as may be after it is made before the House of the State Legislature while it is in session for a total period of thirty days which may be comprised in one session or in two successive sessions, and if, before the expiry of the session in which it is so laid or the session immediately following, the House agrees in making any modification in the rule or the House agrees that the rule should not be made, and notify such decision in the Official Gazette, the rule shall from the date of publication of such notification 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 or omitted to be done under that rule.
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