Lawgist20APower to make rules
1[20A. Power to make rules.--(1) The State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, make rules to carry out the purposes and objects of this Act in the territories under its administration or any part of the said territories.
(2) In particular and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power, such rules may--
(a) prescribe forms for licenses under this Act, the sums payable for the same and the conditions on which they may be granted, and the cases in which they may be revoked;
(b) provide for the inspection of stage-carriages, and of the animals employed in drawing them; and
(c) regulate the number and length of the stages for which animals may be driven in stagecarriages, and the manner in which they shall be harnessed and yoked.
(3) In making any rule under this section the 2[State Government] may direct that a breach thereof shall be punishable with fine which may extend to one hundred rupees.]
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1. Added by Act 1 of 1898, s. 4.
2. Subs. by the A.O. 1950, for "Provincial Government" which had been subs. by the A.O. 1937, for "L.G."
- 1 Definition of stage-carriage
- 2 Carriages to be licensed
- 3 Power to refuse license
- 4 Charge for and duration of license
- 5 Particulars to be painted on conspicuous part of carriage
- 6 Penalty for letting carriage without having particulars painted
- 7 Penalty for letting for hire unlicensed carriage
- 8 Penalty for allowing carriage to be drawn by fewer animals or more passengers, etc., to be carried than provided by license
- 9 Penalty for ill-treating animals
- 10 Revocation of license
- 11 Penalty for not conforming to provisions of section 5
- 12 Penalty for misconduct on part of drivers
- 13 Penalty when recoverable from proprietor
- 14 Issue of summons
- 15 Adjudication of penalties
- 16 Recovery of penalties, etc
- 17 Offender may be apprehended and detained in custody until return of warrant of distress
- 18 Imprisonment of offender if distress not sufficient
- 19 [Repealed.]
- 20 Jurisdiction
- 20A Power to make rules
- 21 Interpretation-clause
- 22 Extent of Act
- 23 Power to State Government to exempt
