The Government or any officer authorised by the Government by a general or special order shall have power,-
(a) to enter and inspect any institution under the control or management of the Central Relief Committee or inspect any work in progress under it or under its direction;
(b) to call for any extract from the proceedings of the Central Relief Committee or of any Committee under its control and direction and any return, statement, account or report which the Central Relief Committee may be required to furnish;
(c) to inspect the office of the Central Relief Committee or any office under its control and direction, and call for the records of any such office, and the officer authorised shall submit the records for the orders of the Government if he is satisfied that the order or proceedings of the Central Relief Committee or the local committee is contrary to law or orders for the time being in force.
Section 39 - Disputes
(1) If any dispute arises between the Central Relief Committee and local committees or local bodies in any matter arising under the provisions of this Act and the dispute is not amicably settled, the matter shall be reported to the Government who may take cognizance of the dispute and decide it and the decision of the Government shall be final.
(2) No suit shall be entertained by a civil court in respect of any dispute referred to in sub-section (1).
Section 40 - Rules
(1) The Government may by notification make rules generally for the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions of this Act.
(2) In particular and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power, such rules may provide for,-
(a) the constitution of the committees and institutions and their powers, duties and functions;
(b) the constitution of the Board of Visitors, its powers, duties and functions;
(c) the submission of returns and statements and reports and the preparation and submission of annual receipts and expenditure and the annual administration report by the Central Relief Committee and the local committees;
(d) the auditing of accounts;
(e) the constitution of a Board of Appeal, its powers, duties and functions;
(f) the transfer of beggars from one institution to another and on such conditions as may be prescribed from one State to another;
(g) prescribing the form of bonds required to be taken under the provisions of this Act; and
(h) any other matter in respect of which rules are required to be or may be made under this Act.
(3) The power of the Government to make rules under this Act shall be subject to the condition of previous publication.
(4) Every rule made under this Act shall be laid as soon as may be after it is made, before each House of the State Legislature while it is in session for a total period of thirty days which may be comprised in one session or in two or more successive sessions, and if, before the expiry of the session immediately following the session or 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 from the date on which the modification or annulment is notified by the Government in the official Gazette have effect only in such modified form or be of no effect, as the case may be, so however, that any modification or annulment shall be without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under such rule.
(5) All rules made by the Government under this Act shall be published in the official Gazette both in English and Kannada.
Section 41 - Repeal
On the date on which this Act comes into force in any area in which any of the Acts specified in the Schedule to this Act is in force, such Act shall stand repealed on such date in such area:
Provided that section 6 of the Karnataka General Clauses Act, 1899 (Karnataka Act III of 1899), shall be applicable in respect of such repeal and sections 8 and 24 of the said Act shall be applicable as if the said enactments had been repealed and re-enacted by this Act.