38. (1) The [State Government] may, after previous publication, makes rules for carrying out the purposes of this Act.
(2) In particular and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing provision, the [State Government] may make [rules] for all or any of the following matters ;
(a) the procedure to be followed in submitting an application to the [State Government] under this Act ;
(b) the form and contents of such application and the documents, if any, by which such application shall be accompanied ;
(c) the issue and service of notices ;
(d) the form of any declaration to be made under this Act ;
(e) the maintenance and correction of the list mentioned in section 7 ;
(f) the procedure to be adopted by the Collector [or the Deputy Commissioner] under sub-section (1) of section 30 ;
(g) the payment or recovery of any expenses incurred in, or in connection with, proceeding held under this Act ;
(h) the period or periods for which and the restrictions and conditions subject to which, leases of the nature mentioned in the proviso to sub-section (1) of section 34 may be sanctioned by the Collector [or the Deputy Commissioner] ;
(i) the circumstances in which and the conditions subject to which, a premium or fine may be taken under sub-section (4) of section 34 on a lease, other than a lease for an agricultural purpose ;
(j) the method in which the land revenue deemed to be payable on revenue-free land upon which land revenue has not been nominally assessed shall be determined.
(3) Rules made under clause (e) of sub-section (2) may require a report to be made by any person becoming or ceasing to be an estateholder to such authority as may be prescribed therein, and may prescribed a penalty for failure to make such report and the mode in which such penalty may be recovered.