(1) The Central Government may, by notification in the official Gazette, 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 all or any of the following matters, namely:
(a) Payment of gratuity to working journalists;
(b) hours of work of working journalists;
(c) holidays, earned leave, leave on medical certificate, casual leave or any other kind of leave admissible to working journalists, 25[(d) the procedure to be followed by the Board [or, as the case may be, the Tribunal] in the discharge of its functions under this Act;
(e) the form of nominations, and the manner in which nominations may be made;
(f) the manner in which any person may be appointed for the purposes of sub-section (3) of Sec. 5-A;
(g) the variation or cancellation of nominations;
(h) the manner of giving notice under Cl. (a) of sub-section (2) of Sec.12;
(i) the registers, records and muster-rolls to be prepared an maintained by newspaper establishments, the forms in which they should be prepared and maintained and the particulars to be entered therein;
(j) the power that may be exercised by an Inspector;
(k) any other matter which has to be, or may be, prescribed.]
26[(3) Every rule made under his section shall be laid as soon as may be after it is made before each House of Parliament while it is in session for a total period of thirty days which may be comprises in one session 27[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, 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.]
28[THE SCHEDULE] (see Sec. 2 (d))
1. For the purposes of Cl. (d) of Sec. 2,--
(1) two or more newspaper establishments under common control shall be deemed to be one newspaper establishment;
(2) two or more newspaper establishments owned by an individual and his or her spouse shall be deemed to be one newspaper establishment unless it is shown that such spouse is a sole proprietor or partner or a shareholder of a corporate body on the basis of his or her own individual funds;
(3) two or more newspaper establishment publishing newspaper bearing the same or similar title and in the same language in any place in India 25 Subs. by Act 65 of 1962, Sec. 9 for Cls. (d), (3), and (f) (w.e.f. 15th January, 1963) 26 Subs. by Act 65 of 1962, Sec. 9 (w.e.f. 15th January, 1963) 27 Subs. by Act 60 of 1974, Sec. 6.
28 Ins. by Act 60 of 1974, Sec 6.
or bearing the same or similar title but in the same State or Union territory shall be deemed to be one newspaper establishment.
2. For the purposes of paragraph 1 (1), two or more establishments shall be deemed to be under common control--
(a) (i) where the newspaper establishments are owned by a common individual or individuals;
(ii) where the newspaper establishments are owned by firms, if such firms have substantial number of common partners;
(iii) where the newspaper establishments are owned by bodies corporate, if one body corporate is a subsidiary of the other body corporate, or both are subsidiaries of a common holding company or a substantial number of their equity shares are owned by the same person or group of persons, whether incorporated or not;
(iv) where one establishment is owned by a body corporate and the other is owned by a firm, if a substantial number of partners of the firm together hold a substantial number of equity shares of the body corporate;
(v) (a) where one is owned by a body corporate and the other is owned by a firm having bodies corporate as its partners if a substantial number of equity shares of such bodies corporate are owned, directly or indirectly, by the same person or group of persons, whether incorporated or not, or
(b) where there is functional integrality between concerned newspaper establishments.”]