State Act

The Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu Plant Diseases and Pests Act, 1976 (Act No. 12 of 1976)

17. Power to make rules.— (1) The Government may, after 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 manner in which any notice or order issued or made under this Act is to be served or the conditions under which every such notice or order shall be deemed to have been served; (b) the form in which an appeal under sub-section (1) or sub-section (2) of section 9 shall be filed; (c) the class of officers who are bound to make a report as required under section 12; and (d) all other matters expressly required or all owed by this Act to be prescribed. (3) Rules made under this Act may provide that a contravention of any such rule shall be punishable with fine which may extend to fifty rupees. (4) Every rule made under this section shall be laid, as soon as may be after it is made, before Legislative Assembly 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, 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 modification or annulment shall be without prejudice to the validity of anything done under that rule.