(1) The State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, 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 be made-
(a) for the whole or any part of the State of Gujarat, and
(b) to provide for all matters expressly required or allowed by this Act to be prescribed by rules.
(3) The power to make rules conferred by this section shall be subject to the condition of the rules being made after previous publication.
(4) All rules made under this section shall be laid for not less than thirty days before the State Legislature as soon as possible after they are made, and shall be subject to rescission or to such modifications as the State Legislature may make during the session in which they are so laid or the session immediately following.
(5) Any rescission or modification so made by the State Legislature shall be published in the Official Gazette and shall thereupon take effect.
23. The State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, direct that all or any of the provisions of this Act which are in force in any village or other local area shall apply to buffalobulls in such village or local area from the date specified in such modification and thereupon the reference to bulls and cows in the provisions of this Act so applied shall be construed as references to buffalo-bulls and buffalo-cows respectively and this shall apply accordingly.
24. On the application of this Act to any village or local area-
(a) the Bombay Live-stock Improvement Act, 1933 as in force in the Bombay area of the State,
(b) the Bombay Live-stock Improvement Act, 1933 as adapted and applied to the Saurashtra area of the State,
(c) the Bombay Live-stock Improvement Act, 1933 as extended to the Kutch area of the State, shall stand repealed in relation to such village or, as the case may be, local area:
Provided that such repeal shall not affect-
(a) the previous operation of the Acts so repealed or of anything duly done or suffered thereunder;
(b) any right, obligation or liability acquired, accrued or incurred under the Acts so repealed;
Live-stock officer to be public servant.
XLV of
1860.
Protection of persons acting in good faith and limitation of suits and prosecutions.
Revision.
Power of State Government to make rules.
Power of State Government to apply the provisions of this Act to buffalo-bulls.
Repeal and saving.
Bom. XXII of 1933.
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(c) any penalty or punishment incurred or imposed in respect of any offence committed under the Acts so repealed; or
(d) any investigation, legal proceeding or remedy in respect of any such right, obligation or liability, penalty or punishment as aforesaid, and any such investigation, legal proceeding or remedy may be instituted, continued or enforced and any such penalty or punishment may be imposed as if this Act had not been passed:
Provided further that subject to the succeeding proviso, anything done or any action taken under the provisions of any of the Acts so repealed shall be deemed to have been done or taken under the corresponding provisions of this Act, and shall continue in force accordingly, unless and until it is superseded by anything done or any action taken under this Act:
Provided also that the rules prescribed under the Bombay Live-stock Improvement Act, 1933, and in force on the appointed day shall, in so far as they are not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, be deemed to be the rules made under section 22 of this Act, for the whole of the State with effect from the appointed day.
------------------------------------- 1 For Statement of Objects and Reasons See Gujarat Government Gazette, Extraordinary, Part v, dated the 24th September, 1980, page
318.
This Act was assented to by the Governor on the 17th October, 1980.
Bom. XXII of 1933.