Section 8 — Power to make rules.

8. 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- 

                                                 
1. The Act came into force from 1st March, 1970 vide Notification. No. 2-26/69-SI 

(UL) dated the 16th  February, 1970, published in the Rajpatra, Himachal 
Pradesh, dated the 21st February, 1970, p. 251.  



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(a) the constitution of authorities for granting licences; 

(b) the form and manner in which applications for licences may be 
made and the payment of fees therefor, if any; and 

(c) the terms and conditions which may be included in any licence. 

(3) Every rule made under this section shall be laid, as soon as maybe 
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 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.