Section 24 — Power to make rules.

24. Power to make rules.- (1) The 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, such rules may provide for all or any of the following 

matters, namely:-  



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(a) the form of notice under section 4 and the manner in which 

such notice may be served;  

(b) the form of the register of habitual offenders and the 

particulars to be entered therein; 

(c) the authority to whom and the manner in which any change or 

intended change of ordinary residence shall be notified under 

sub-section (1) of section 7;  

(d) the nature of restrictions to be observed by registered 

offenders whose movements have been restricted;  

(e)  the grant of certificate of identity to registered offenders and 

inspection of such certificates;  

(f)  the conditions under which the offenders may be permitted to 

leave the area to which their movements have been restricted 

or the corrective settlement in which they have been placed;  

(g) the terms upon which offenders may be discharged from 

corrective settlements;  

(h) the working, management, control and supervision of 

corrective settlements including the discipline and conduct of 

persons placed therein;  

(i) the conditions for, and the manner of, approving of certifying 

privately managed settlements;  

(j) the appointment of non-official visitors for corrective 

settlements;  

(k) the conditions and circumstances under which members of 

the family of a habitual offender may be permitted to stay 

with him in a corrective settlement;  

(l) the periodical review of the cases of all persons whose 

movements have been restricted or who are placed in 

corrective settlements under this Act; and  

(m) any other matter which is to be or may be prescribed under 

this Act.  

(3) In making rules under this Act, the Government may provide that 

a contravention of any of the rules shall be punishable with fine which may 

extend to one hundred rupees.  

(4) Every rule made under this Act shall be laid, as soon as may be 

after it is made, before the Legislative Assembly while it is in session, for a 

total period of not less than fourteen days which may be comprised in one 

session or in two or more successive sessions and if before the expiry of the 

session in which it is so laid or the sessions aforesaid, the Assembly makes 

any modification in the rule or decides that the rules 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, however, that any such modification or annulment shall 



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be without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under that 

rule.