(1) The Government may make rules to carry out the purposes of this Act.
(2) In particular and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power such rules may provide for:-
(a) the manner of holding enquiry under sub-section (2) of section 8.
(b) the terms and conditions subject to which the lands in the holding of the communes shall be registered under section 10;
(c) the language, form and the manner in which the records shall be prepared and such other particulars which the record shall contain under sub-section (2) of section 13;
(d) the manner in which the notification under sub-section (1) of section 14 shall be published;
(e) the particulars to be given while filing the objections under sub-section (2) of section 14;
(f) the manner of conducting enquiry under sub-section (4) of section 14;
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(g) the manner in which the Register of Rights shall be published under sub-section (1) of section 15;
(h) the particulars to be given in an application under subsection (2) of section 16;
(i) the procedure to be followed by the officer under subsection (3) of section 16;
(j) the fees to be paid for making entries in the approved Register of Rights and the manner in which the report shall be made by the registering authority under section 18.
(k) the form of the Register of Mutations under sub-section (1) of section 19.
(1) the officer by whom and the fees on payment of which certified copies may be granted under section 20; and
(m) any other matter which under this Act is to be, or may be, prescribed.
(3) All rules made under this Act, shall, as soon as may be after they are made, be laid before the Legislative Assembly of Puducherry while it is in session for a total period of fourteen days which may be comprised in one session or in two or more successive sessions, and if before the expiry of the session in which it is so laid, or the sessions aforesaid, the Legislative Assembly makes any modification in the rule or decides that the rule should not be made, the rule shall thereafter 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.
Amendment to Act 8 of 1967
28. In the Puducherry Survey and Boundaries Act, 1967(Act 8 of 1967), Chapter III (sections 15 to 23 both inclusive) shall be deleted.
Certain assessments to continue
29. Notwithstanding anything contained in this Act all assessment rates in force at the commencement of this Act shall be deemed to have been determined and introduced in accordance with the provisions of this Act and shall remain in force until the introduction of assessment rates under this Act and such rates may be introduced at any time after the commencement of this Act.
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