The Tamil Nadu Village Courts Act, 1888
Chapter IX POWER TO MAKE RULES
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Chapter IX POWER TO MAKE RULES
78. Power to make rules
Statutory text
- (1) The State Government may make rules to carry out all or any of the purposes of the Act.
- (2) In particular and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power such rules may—
- (a) regulate the appointments of village munsifs under section 7,
- (b) regulate the appointments or elections of presidents, vice-presidents and other members of the panchayat courts and prescribe their qualifications and disqualifications,
- (c) regulate the meetings and proceedings of panchayat courts and the attendance of members thereof,
- (d) prescribe the manner in which panchayat courts may take cognizance of offences and the procedure to be followed by them in the trial of offences,
- (e) provide for the presentation, withdrawal and dismissal of complaints and the compounding of offences and prescribe the persons who may conduct a prosecution or represent the accused.
- (f) provide for the summoning and attendance of the accused and for the summoning and examination of witnesses in criminal cases,
- (g) prescribe as to criminal cases the forms of all registers, returns and processes, the manner in which such registers shall be maintained, the dates on which such returns shall be made and the officers to whom they shall be sent,
- (h) provide for the service of process, the execution of decrees and the recovery of fines,
- (i) provide for the receipt and custody of all documents and records by or on behalf of panchayat courts and for the grant of copies of decrees and other records, and
- (j) provide for the levy of fees for the service of process, the execution of decrees and the grant of copies.
- (3) All rules made under this Act shall be published in the Official Gazette and, unless they are expressed to come into force on a particular day, shall come into force on the day on which they are so published.
- (4) Every rule made under this Act shall, as soon as possible, after it is made, be placed on the table of both Houses of the Legislature, and if, before the expiry of the session in which it is so placed or the next session, both Houses agree in making any modification in any such rule or both Houses agree 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.
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