Power to make rules & prescribe penalties

(1) The Government may, from time to time, make rules to regulate the following matters, namely— (a) the salving collection and disposal of all timber mentioned in section 40-A; (b) the use and registration of boats used in salving and collecting timber; (c) the mounts to be paid for saving, collecting, moving, storing and disposing of such timber; (d) the use and registration of hammers and other instruments to be used for marking such timber (2) The Government may by such rules prescribe, as penalties for the infringement thereof, imprisonment for a term which may extend to six months or fine which may extend to five hundred rupees or both.