Section 8 — Power to make rules.

8. Power to make rules.- (1) The State Government may, by notification make 
rules to carry out the purposes of this Act.  

(2) Any rule made under this Act may be made with retrospective effect and 
when such a rule is made, the reasons for making the rule shall be specified in a 
statement to be laid before both Houses of the State Legislature and subject to any 
modification made under subsection (3), every rule made under this Act shall have effect 
as if it is enacted in this Act.  

(3) Every rule made under this Act shall be laid as soon as may be, after it is 
made, before each House of the State Legislature while it is in session for a total period 
of thirty 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 
immediately following, both Houses agree in making any modification in the rule or both 
Houses agree 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 
modification or annulment shall be without prejudice to the validity of anything previously 
done under that rule.