Smugglers and Foreign Exchange Manipulators (Forfeiture of Property) Act, 1976
26. Power to make rules-
(1) The Central Government may, by
notification in the Official Gazette, make rules to carry out the provisions 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 terms and
conditions of service of the Chairman and other members of the Appellate
Tribunal under sub-section (3) of section 12.
[(aa) (Note:- Ins.
by Act No.55 of 1980, s.3 (w.e.f. 1-7-1981) the fees which shall be paid
for the inspection of the records and registers of the Appellate Tribunal or
for obtaining a certified copy of any part thereof under sub-section (8) of
section 12;]
(b) The powers of a
civil court that may be exercised by the compet4ent authority and the Appellate
Tribunal under clause (f) of section 15;
(c) Any other matter
which has to be, or may be, prescribed.
(3) Every rule made under this Act shall be
laid, as soon as may be after it is made, before each House of Parliament,
while it is in session, for a total period of thirty days which be comprised in
one session or in two or more successive sessions, and if, before the expiry of
the sessions immediately following the sessions aforesaid, 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 from
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.