Power to make rules

(1) The Government may, by notification, make rules to carry out the purpose of this Act.

(2) In particular and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power, such rules may provide for—

(a) the method of appointment and the nomination of members to the Parishad and the Zilla Grandhalaya Samsthas;

(b) the publication of audited statements of the accounts of Zilla Grandhalaya Samsthas and of the reports of the auditors;

(c) the publication of a Library Grant-in-aid Code, regulating the grant of aid to aided libraries and the standards to be maintained by such libraries;

(d) the maintenance of State Registers of Libraries, and librarians;

(e) the employment of necessary staff for the public libraries maintained by a Zilla Grandhalaya Samstha and for regulating the classification, methods of recruitment, pay and allowances, discipline and conduct and other conditions of service of the staff employed in such libraries;

(f) the classification, methods of recruitment, pay and allowances, discipline and conduct and other conditions of service of the members of the Library Service constituted under section 19-A;

(g) the recognition of the library associations and regulation of grants to such associations.

(3) Every rule made under this Act shall, immediately after it is made, be laid before each House of the State Legislature if it is in session and if it is not in session, in the session immediately following for a total period of fourteen days which may be comprised in one session or in two successive sessions, and if, before the expiration of the session in which it is so laid or the session immediately following, both Houses agree in making any modification in the rule or in the annulment of the rule, the rule shall thereafter have effect only in such modified form or shall stand annulled 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.