Section 21 — Power to make rules.

21. Power to make rules.- (1) The Government may, by notification, 

make rules to carry out the purposes of this Act. 

(2) In particular and without prejudice to the generality of the 

foregoing provision, such rules may provide for- 

(a) all matters required to be prescribed under this Act; 

(b) the powers and duties to be exercised and performed by 

officers or persons acting under this Act and the procedure to 

be adopted by them in so acting; and 

(c) the approved age of a bull for purposes of breeding in any 

specified area. 

(3) All rules shall be subject to previous publication. 

(4) In making any rule, the Government may direct that a breach 

thereof shall be punishable with fine which may extend to fifty rupees. 

(5) Every rule made 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 ten 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 Legislative 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 



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

rule.