Water (Prevention & Control of Pollution) Cess Act, 1977
17. Power to make rules
(1) The Central Government may make rules for
carrying out the purposes of this Act.
(2) Without prejudice to the generality of the
foregoing power, such rules may provide for all or any of the following
matters, namely,-
(a) the standards of
the meters to be affixed and the places at which such meters are to be affixed
under sub-section (1) of section 4;
(b) the returns to be
furnished under section 5, the form in which and the intervals at which such
returns are to be furnished, the particulars which such returns shall contain
and the officer or authority to whom or which such returns shall be furnished;
(c) the manner in
which and the time within which the cess collected shall be paid to the Central
Government under sub-section (4) of section 6;
(d) the date from which
any person or local authority liable to pay cess shall be entitled to the
rebate 1[and the maximum quantity of water in excess of consumption whereof any
person or local authority shall not be entitled to the rebate];
(e) the powers which
may be exercised by the officer or authority under section 9;
(f) the authority
which may impose penalty under section 11;
(g) the authority to
which an appeal may be filed under sub-section (1) of section 13 and the time
within which and the form and manner in which such appeal may be filed;
(h) the fees which
shall accompany an appeal under sub-section (2) of section 13; and
(i) 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 may be comprised in
one session or in two or more successive sessions and if, before the expiry of
the session immediately following the session or the successive 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 form or be of on 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.