(1) The Central Government or the State Government may by order provide-
(a) for prohibiting or regulating the display of lights of any specified description;
(b) for the screening that of any lighting apparatus, whether for the time being alight or not, carried on, or attached to any specified class of vehicles;
(c) for securing that, in specified circumstances indication of the position of such premises and places, and warning of the presence of such vehicles and vessels as may be specified shall be given by means of such light as may be specified, and for prescribing the manner in which any apparatus used for the purpose of exhibiting such lights is to be construed, installed or used;
(d) for prohibiting or regulating the use of roads by any particular class of traffic, so far as appears to it to be necessary for avoiding danger consequent on compliance with any provisions of an order made under this rule which relates to the lighting of roads or of vehicles or roads;
(e) for prohibiting or regulating such activities as may be specified, being activities which consist of or involve the emission of smoke, flames, sparks or glare or the making of noise.
(2) An order under sub-rule (1) may be made so as to apply to any specified area or premises, may make different provisions as respects different parts of an area or different classes, of premises, places, vehicles or vessels (either absolutely or conditionally), from the operation of any of the provisions of the order, and may contain such incidental and 8 CIVIL DEFENCE LEGISLATION IN INDIA 9 supplementary provision as appear to the authority making the order to be necessary or expedient for the purposes of the order.
(3) If any order made under sub-rule (1) is contravened in respect of, or in relation to, any light, premises, place, vehicles, vessel, apparatus, road, or activity to which the order applies, any police officer, or any person authorized in this behalf by the authority making the order may take such steps and use such force as may, in his opinion, be reasonably necessary for giving effect to the order and I in the exercise of this power shall have a right of access to any land or other property whatsoever.
(4) If any order made under this rule is contravened in respect of any premises, place, vehicle or vessel, the occupier of the premises or place, the person in charge of the vehicle, or the master of the vessel as the case may be shall, without prejudice to any proceedings which may be taken against any other person, be deemed to have contravened the provisions of this rule:
Provided that in any proceedings which by virtue of this sub-rule are taken against any person in respect of a contravention of such an order on the part of another person, it shall be defence for the accused to prove that the contravention of non-compliance occurred without his knowledge and the he exercised all due diligence to secure compliance with the order.
3 . Measures for dealing with outbreaks of fire- (1) With a view to preventing the speared, or facilitating the detection and extinction of the fire caused by hostile attack, the Central Government or the State Government may by order make provision for requiring the owners of occupiers of the premises to which the order applies to take such period as may be specified in the order such measures as may be specified.
(2)Any police officer, or any person authorized in this behalf by the Central Government or the State Government may at any time enter and inspect any premises to which an order made under sub-rule (1) applies for the purpose of seeing whether the order has been complied with he may, without prejudice to any other proceedings which may be taken in respect of the contravention of the order, take such steps and use such force as may appear to him to be reasonably necessary for giving effect to the order.
(3) If in the opinion of the Central Government or the State Government any person who has been ordered under sub-rule (1) to take any measure has failed to take or is unlikely to complete the measures within the period specified in the order, then, without prejudice to any other proceedings which may be taken in respect of the contravention of the order, that Government may cause the said measures to be taken or completed and the cost thereof shall be recoverable from the owner or occupiers of the premises to which the order applies to take within such period as may be specified in the order such measures as may be specified.
(4) In the event of any outbreak of fire, any person authorized in this behalf by the Central Government or the State Government, may take or cause to be taken such steps and give such directions as appear to him to be necessary for preventing the spread of fire; and the steps which may be so taken including entering upon any land or the property whatsoever and the destruction or removal of anything in, on or over any land or property.