(1) The Government may, by notification in the official gazette, make rules for the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions of this Act.
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(a) the remuneration payable to the members;
(b) procedure for removal of the members of the Commission under section 11;
(c) the procedure for registration under section 13 of the Act;
(d) procedure for inquiries under section 18 of the Act;
(e) investigations by the Director;
(f) procedure for inspection of prisons, police stations, lock-ups, sub-jails, rescue homes or other places of custody where women are kept as prisoners or otherwise or shelters for women or other places run by the Government or any of its agencies including agencies receiving aid from the Government for the purpose of offering rescue or shelter to women or hostels intended for women or girls run by any person and such other places, wherein unfair practice to women or girls is complained of or for holding of enquiries about the treatment that women or girls are subjected to at such place;
(g) maintaining a data bank;
(h) the formulation of a comprehensive and affirmative scheme for securing equal opportunity to women and for improvement and uplift of women and programme for its implementation;
(i) procedure for recommending prosecution in respect of offences committed against women under any statute;
(j) any other matter which has to be, or may be prescribed.
(3) Every rule made under this Act shall be laid, as soon as may be after it is made, before the Legislative Assembly, while it is in session, for a total period of 14 days which may be comprised in one session or in two successive sessions and if before the expiry of the session in which it is so laid or the session immediately following 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, or 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.
_______ STATEMENT OF OBJECTS AND REASONS FOR ACT NO.2 OF 2002 As early as in 1997, the National Commission for Women, New Delhi, had requested this Union Territory Administration to set up a State Commission for Women in the Union Territory for the purpose of helping the women and for redressed of their grievances in the Union Territory. To achieve the above, the draft legislation titled "The Puducherry Women’s Commission Bill" has been prepared and for which the prior approval of the Government of India has been obtained for introduction in the Legislative Assembly. The Bill as such seeks to provide for the constitution of a Women’s Commission to improve the status of women in the Union Territory to enquire into unfair practices affecting women and for matters connected therewith.
The Bill seeks to achieve the above objects.
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