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Section 91: Power of State Government to make rules

Indian Lunacy Act 1912Union territory Act of Chandigarh · Act 4 of 1912

(1) [* * * *] The State Government may make rules for all or any of the following purposes, namely 5

(a) to prescribe forms for any proceeding under this Act other than a proceeding before a High Court [* * *];

(b) to prescribe places of detention and regulate the care and treatment of persons detained under Sec. 8 or Sec. 16 ;

(c) to regulate the detention, care, treatment and discharge of criminal lunatics ;

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(d) to regulate the management of asylums and the care and custody of the inmates thereof and their transfer from one asylum to another ;

(e) to regulate the transfer of criminal lunatics to asylums ;

(f) to prescribe the procedure to be allowed by District Courts and Magistrate before a lunatic is sent to any asylum established by Government;

(g) to prescribe the Government asylums] within the State to which lunatics from any area or any class of lunatics shall be sent;

(h) to prescribe conditions subject to which asylum may be licensed ;

(i) save as otherwise provided in this Act, generally to carry into effect the provisions of the Act.

92. Publication of rules,—All rules made under Sec. 91 shall be published in the official Gazette, and shall thereupon have effect as if enacted in this Act.

Where this provision sits

ActIndian Lunacy Act 1912
Section91
Marginal notePower of State Government to make rules
JurisdictionUnion territory of Chandigarh
StatusIn force as published by the source

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