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2[6. Power to make rules. --(1) The Central Government may, by notification in the Official
Gazette, make rules for carrying out the purposes of this Act.
(2) In particular and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power, rules made under this
section may provide --
(a) for the setting up of machinery to ascertain the disabilities in respect of any of the matters
specified in section 3 to which persons of Indian origin are subject in any British Possession;
(b) for the establishment of a suitable agency to administer the rules and for defining its functions
and powers;
(c) for specifying the disabilities that shall, when a direction has been made under section 3, be
imposed in 1[India] on persons not being of Indian origin who are domiciled in any British Possession
and for the imposition on them of the disabilities so specified;
(d) for the enforcement, by the prescription of a penalty by way of imprisonment or fine or both,
or any rule made under clause (c);
(e) for authorizing the arrest of any person contravening or reasonably suspected of contravening
any rule made under clause (c), and for prescribing the duties of public servants and others in regard
to such arrests.]
3[(3) Every rule made under this Act 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
comprised 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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1. Subs. by Act 3 of 1951, s. 3 and the Sch. for "the States".
2. Subs. by s. 6, ibid., for the original s. 6.
3. Ins. by Act 4 of 1986, s. 2 the Sch. (w.e.f. 15-5-1986).