20. Power to make
rules.—(1) The Central Government may, by notification
in the official Gazette, make rules to carry out the purposes
of this Act.
(2) In particular and without prejudice to the generality
of the foregoing power, such rules may provide for all or
any of the following matters, namely:
(a) Payment of gratuity to working journalists;
(b) hours of work of working journalists;
(c) holidays, earned leave, leave on medical certificate,
casual leave or any other kind of leave admissible to working
journalists,
(d) the procedure to be followed by the Board or, as the
case may be, the Tribunal in the discharge of its functions
under this Act;
(e) the form of nominations, and the manner in which nominations
may be made;
(f) the manner in which any person may be appointed for the
purposes of sub-section (3) of Sec. 5-A;
(g) the variation or cancellation of nominations;
(h) the manner of giving notice under Cl. (a) of sub-section
(2) of Sec.12;
(i) the registers, records and muster-rolls to be prepared
an maintained by newspaper establishments, the forms in which
they should be prepared and maintained and the particulars
to be entered therein;
(j) the power that may be exercised by an Inspector;
(k) any other matter which has to be, or may be, prescribed.
(3) Every rule made under his section shall be laid as soon
as may be after it is made before each House of Parliament
while it is in session for a total period of thirty days which
may be comprises in one session or in two or more successive
sessions. and if before the expiry of the session immediately
following the session or the 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 thereafter have effect only in such modified form or
be of no effect, as the case may be; so, however, that any
such modification or annulment shall be without prejudice
to the validity of anything previously done under that rule.
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