(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 provide for all or any of the following matters, namely :-
(a) the maintenance of registers or other records as to the political parties, aghadi or fronts, if any, to which different councillors, or as the case may be, members belong;
(b) the report which the leader of a municipal party or a Zilla Parishad party, in relation to a councillor and the leader of a Panchayat Samiti party in relation to a member shall furnish with regard to any condonation of the nature referred to in clause (b) of sub-section (1) of section 3 in respect of such councillor, or as the case may be, member, the time within which and the authority to whom such report shall be furnished;
(c) the reports which a political party or aghadi or front shall furnish with regard to admission to such political party or aghadi or front of any councillors or members and the officer of the Municipal Corporation, Municipal Council, Zilla Parishad, or as the case may be, Panchayat Samiti to whom such reports shall be furnished;
(d) the procedure for deciding any question referred to in section 7 including the procedure of any inquiry which will be made for the purpose of deciding such question; and
(e) any other matter which is required to be or may be prescribed.
(3) In making rules under this section, the State Government may provide that for any breach thereof, the offender shall on conviction be punished with fine which may extend to one thousand rupees and in the case of continuing breach with fine which may extend to fifty rupees for every day during which the breach continues after conviction for the first breach.
(4) Every rule made by the State Government under this Act, shall be laid, as soon as may be after it is made, before each House of State Legislature, while it is in session, for a total period of thirty days which may be comprised in one session or in two or more successive sessions, and if, before the expiry of the session immediately following the session or the successive sessions aforesaid, both Houses agree in making any modification in the rule or both Houses agree that the rule should not be made, then on publication of such decision in the Official Gazette, the rule shall have effect only in such modified form or be of no effect, as the case may be; so, however, that any such modification or annulment shall be without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under that rule.