Section Text
(1) The State Government1[may, by notification in the Official Gazette, make rules] to regulate the following matters, namely:-
(a) the salving, collection and disposal of all timber mentioned in section 45;
(b) the use and registration of boats used in salving and collecting timber;
(c) the amounts to be paid for salving, collecting, moving, storing or disposing of such timber; and
(d) the use and registration of hammers and other instruments to be used for marking such timber.
2[(1A) Every rule made by the Sate Government under this Act shall be laid, as soon as may be after it is made, before the State Legislature.]
(2) The3[State Government] may prescribe, as penalties for the contravention of any rules made under this section, imprisonment for a term which may extend to six months, or fine which may extend to five hundred rupees, or both.
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1 . Substituted by the Delegated Legislation Provisions (Amendment) Act, 2004, section 2 and Schedule, for "may make rules".
2 . Inserted by the Delegated Legislation Provisions (Amendment) Act, 2004, section 2 and Schedule.
3. Substituted by the A.O. 1950, for " Provincial Government".