(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898, an offence , punishable under sub-section (1) of section 18 shall be cognizable and non-bailable.
(2) No court shall take cognizance of an offence punishable under sub-section (2) of section 18 except on a complaint made in writing by the fair officer or any other officer not below the rank of a Gazetted officer authorised by the Deputy Commissioner in this behalf.
(3) An offence punishable under sub-section (2) of section 18 may be tried in a summary manner.
Composition 20. The fair officer may accept from any person charged with an offence punishable under sub-section (2) of section 18 by way of composition of the offence a sum of money not exceeding five hundred rupees and on such payment such person, if in custody, shall be set at liberty and the composition shall be deemed to amount to an acquittal and in no case shall any further proceeding be taken against such person in respect of the same offence.
Power to make regulations.
21. The fair officer may, subject to the rules made under this Act and with the approval of the State Government, make regulations to provide generally against the outbreak or spread of fire and particularly for the following purposes, namely :-
(i) safety of buildings and structures put up in the fair area;
(ii) laying down conditions on which huts and other structures may be constructed, including limits to the heights of such huts or structures and the areas on which they are to be built distances between them;
(iii) providing for the supply of water;
(iv) restricting the use of fire for cooking or for any other purpose and taking precautions against spread of fire.
Power to make 22. (1) The State Government may by notification make rules Cognizance of offences.
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 manner in which sites shall be allotted temporarily for commercial or other purposes in connection with the cattle fair and the rents thereof shall be fixed under clause (iii) of sub-section (2) of section 4;
(b) the manner in which and the rate at which tolls and taxes shall be imposed, assessed and collected;
(c) the manner in which, the fee on payment of which and the authority by which registration certificates and sale certificates shall be issued under section 8;
(d) the form and manner in which, the payment of fee on which and the authority by which licenses referred to in sub-section (2) of section 9 shall be issued;
(e) the manner in which and the fee on payment of which the Deputy Commissioner shall revise an order of suspension or cancellation of a broker's license under sub-section (5) of section 9;
(f) the manner in which distress and sale of animals or movable property shall be made under sub-section (2) of section14;
(g) the amount for the deposit of which direction may be given under section 15;
(h) the manner in which the Cattle Fair Fund shall be constituted and matters connected with the proper administration of such Fund;
(i) sanitation and control of diseases in a fair area ; and
(j) any other purpose for which rules are required to be or may be made.
(3) Every rules made under this action shall be laid as soon as may be after it is made before each. House of the State Legislature while it is in session for a total period of ten days which may be comprised in one session or in two successive sessions;
and if before the expiry of the session in which lit is so laid or the session immediately following, both Houses agree in making any modification in the rule of both Houses agree 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.
23. The provisions of this Act shall have effect, notwithstanding any thing inconsistent therewith contained in any other law for the time being in force.