(1) All bye-laws for which provision is made under this Act shall be made by the Board at a special meeting and shall be consistent with this Act and with the rules made thereunder.
(2) A bye-law may be general for the whole area under the jurisdiction of the Board or special for any part of such area, as the Board may direct.
(3) Unless specially excepted in this Act from the operation of this sub-section, no bye-law shall take effect until it has been confirmed by the Government.
(4) Unless specially excepted in this Act from the operation of this sub-section, no bye-law shall take effect until it has been published in the manner prescribed by rules under this Act;
(5) In making any bye-laws the Board may direct that a breach thereof shall be punishable with fine which may Bye-laws.
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202. In addition to any power of making bye-laws specially conferred by this Act, a Board may make bye-Iaws-
(a) for defining limits and regulating the use and management of, and for maintaining sanitary condition in any public market, fair, agricultural or industrial show or exhibition;
(b) for the management, maintenance and control of all matters administered by the Board under sections 80 and 81;
(c) for regulating the use of public roads and the traffic thereon and for securing cleanlines, security and order in respect of the same;
(d) for protecting from injury or interference anything within the limits of the Board jurisdiction or in the charge of the Board being the property of the Government or of the Board;
(e) for licensing brokers, commission agents, weighmen or measurers practising their calling in any public market or fair, and fixing the fees leviable on them and the conditions on which the licenses are to be granted and may be revoked;
(f) for the appointment of persons to register sales of animals in any public market or fair;
(g) for the appointment of a committee for any public market, fair, agricultural or industrial show or exhibition, and Matters as to which bye-laws may be made.
120 [Act No.I of 1956] for the delegation to such committee of all or any of the powers of the Board for the control and supervision of such market, fair, show or exhibition; and
(h) generally for carrying out the purposes of this Act.
CHAPTER XV.
Miscellaneous.
203. Notwithstanding anything contained in this Act or in the Hyderabad Village Panchayat Act, 1951 (here-inafter referred to in this section as that Act), the Government may, in consultation with the Board or Panchayat as the case may be, by notification and subject to such restrictions and conditions and to such control and revision as may be specified therein direct—
(i) that any power or function vested in a Panchayat or class of Panchayats generally by or under that Act, shall be transferred to and be exercised or performed by a Board within the area under its jurisdiction, or
(ii) that any power or function vested in a Board or Boards generally by or under this Act shall be transferred to and be exercised or performed by any Panchayat or class of Panchayats within the area under its or their respective jurisdiction, or
(iii) that any power or function vested in a Board under this Act as well as in a Panchayat or class of Panchayats generally under that Act, shall be exercised or performed exclusively either by the Board or by the Panchayat or class of Panchayats generally within the area under its or their respective jurisdiction.
Power of Government to transfer powers and functions of Panchayats to Boards and viceversa.
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204. A copy of any receipt, application, plan, notice, order, entry in a register or other document in the possession of a Board shall, if duly certified by the legal keeper thereof, or other person authorised by any bye-law in this behalf, be received as prima facie evidence of the existence of the entry or document, and shall be admitted as evidence of the matters and transactions therein recorded in every case, where, and to the same extent as the original entry or document would, if produced, have been admissible to prove such matters.
205. No officer or servant of the Board shall in any legal proceeding to which a Board is not a party be required to produce any register or document the contents of which can be proved under the preceding section by a certified copy, or to appear as a witness to prove the matters and transactions recorded therein, unless by order of the Court made for special cause.
206. The Board shall have the powers of a Civil Court for the purpose of enforcing the attendance of witnesses and compelling the production of documents and every person required by the Board to furnish any information before it, shall be legally bound to do so within the meaning of section 176 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (XLV of 1860).
207. Every police officer employed within the jurisdiction of a Board shall give immediate informaiion to the Board of any offence committed against this Act or the rules or bye-laws thereunder and shall be bound to assist all members, officers and servants of the Board in the exercise of their lawful authority.