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(1) The StateGovernment may by notification in the Official Gazette, make rules to carry outgenerally the purposes of this Act.
(2) In particularand without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power such rules may bemade for regulating,-
(a) the supplyand sale of stamps and stamped papers,
(b) the personsby whom alone such sale is to be conducted,
(c) the dutiesand remuneration of such persons, 1 [xxx]
(d) the fineswhich shall in no case exceed five hundred rupees, to be incurred on breach of anyrule,
2 [(e)themanner of holding inquiry under Section 3 [45-A(2) and (3)]; and
(f) the time withinwhich an appeal shall be preferred and the manner in which such appeal shall beheard and disposed of by the 4 [Deputy Inspector General of Registrationof the Department of Registration and Stamps]]:
5 [(g)regulating the constitution of Central Valuation Committee and other sub-committeesin the sub-district and district and procedure for the estimation, publication andrevision of market value guidelines of properties under Section 45-B].
Provided thatsuch rules shall not restrict the sale of 6 [fifteen naye paise, ten nayepaise or five naye paise] adhesive stamps.
7 [(3)Every rule made under this section shall be laid as soon as may be after it is madebefore each House of the State Legislature while it is in session for a total periodof thirty days which may be comprised in one session or in two successive sessions,and if before the expiry of the session in which it is so laid or the session immediatelyfollowing both Houses agree in making any modification in the rule or both Housesagree that the rule should not be made, the rule shall thereafter have effect onlyin such modified from or be of no effect, as the case may be; so however; that anysuch modification or annulment shall be without prejudice to the validity of anythingpreviously done under that rule.]
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1. Omitted by Act No. 12 of 1975,w.e.f. 1-5-1975the word "and."
2. Inserted by Act No. 12 of 1975,w.e.f. 1-5-1975.
3. Substituted by Act No. 8 of 2003,w.e.f. 1-4-2003for the words and brackets "45-A(2)"
4. Substituted by Act No. 8 of 2003,w.e.f. 1-4-2003for the words "District Judge".
5. Inserted by Act No. 8 of 2003,w.e.f. 1-4-2003.
6. Substituted by Act No. 29 of 1962,w.e.f.1-10-1962, for the words "six paise or three paise"
7. Substituted by Act No. 29 of 1962, w.e.f. 1-10-1962