Section 29 — Power to make rules.

29. Power to make rules.- (1) The State 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:- 

(a) the conduct of business by the committee and the procedure 
to be followed at meetings of the committee; 

(b) the procedure to be followed for the preparation of the 
schemes; 

(c) the procedure to be followed by Inquiry Officer under 
section 5; 

(d) the manner of publication under sections 5, 6 and 7; 

(e) the principles on which the amounts of contribution are to be 
determined by the committee under sub-section (4) of section 
10 or section 11; 

(f) the form of the statement under section 14 and the particulars 
to be stated therein; 

(g) the manner of giving notice under sub-section (1) of section 
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(h) the authority to whom appeal may lie and the time and 
manner of such appeal under section 17; 

(i) the form of notice under section 20 and the manner of its 
service; 

(j) the manner of inquiry under section 23 and sub-section (1) of 
section 24; 

(k) the form and method of maintaining accounts under section 
25; 

(l) the rate of interest and the method of its calculation under 
sub-section (1) of section 26; 

(m) the time and manner of appeal under section 27; and 

(n) any other matter which may be prescribed. 

(3) Every rule under this section 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 laid or the sessions aforesaid, the Assembly makes any 
modification in the rule or decides 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.