No suit, prosecution or other legal proceedings shall lie against the Goxernment or a local authority or the appellate authority or the estate oflicer or any other oflicer in respect of anything which is in good faith done or intended to be done in pursuance of this Act or of any rule or order made thereunder.
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18. Power to make rule5.—-(1) The Government may, by notification in the Gazette, make rules for carrying out the purposes of this Act.
(2) In particular and without prejudice to the genetality of the foregoing power such rules may provide for all or any ofthe followmg matters, namely: —-
(a) the form of any notice required or authorised to be given under this Act and the manner in which it may be served ,
(b) the holdmg of inquiries under this Act ;
(c) the distribution and allocat1on of work to estate officers and the transfer of any proceedings pending before an estate officer to another estate officer ;
(d) the procedure to be followed in taking possession of public buildings ;
(e) the manner in which damages for unauthorised occupation may be assessed and the principles which may be taken into account in assessing such damages ;
) the manner in which appeals may be preferred and the procedure to be followed in appeals;
(g) any other matter which has to be, or may be, prescribed.
(3) Eve1y rule made under this section shall be laid as soon as may be after it 15 made, before the Legislative Assembly while it is in session for a total per1od of fourteen days which may be comprised in one session or 1n two success1ve sess1ons, and 1f, before the expiry of the sessmn 1n wh1ch 1t 15 so laid, or the sessmn 1mmediately following, the Legislative Assembly makes any mod1ficat1on in the rule or decides that the tule should not be made, the rule shall thereafter have effect only in such mod1ficd form or be of no effect, as the case may be; so however that any such mod1fication or annulment shall be without prejudice to the valid1ty of anythmg previously done under that rule.
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