Section 19 of The Promotion and Regulation of Online Gaming Act, 2025: Power of Central Government to make rules.
The Promotion and Regulation of Online Gaming Act, 2025
About this Act
An Act to promote and regulate the online gaming sector including e-sports, educational games and social gaming; to provide for the appointment of an Authority for coordinated policy support, strategic development and regulatory oversight of the sector; to prohibit the offering, operation, facilitation, advertisement, promotion and participation in online money games through any computer resource, mobile device or the internet, particularly where such activities operate across State borders or from foreign jurisdictions; to protect individuals, especially youth and vulnerable populations, from the adverse social, economic, psychological and privacy-related impacts of such games; to ensure the responsible use of digital technologies; to maintain public order and protect public health; to safeguard the integrity of financial systems and the security and sovereignty of the State; to establish a uniform national level legal framework in the public interest; and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
(2) Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing powers, such rules may provide for all or any of the following matters, namely:––
(a) such other measures as may be necessary to promote the sector relating to e-sports under clause (e) of sub-section (2) of section 3;
(b) such other measures as may be necessary to promote the sector relating to online social gaming under clause (f) of sub-section (2) of section 4;
(c) the manner of recognising, categorising and registering online games under clause (b) of sub section (2) of section 8;
(d) such other powers and functions relating to powers of the Authority or agency under clause (c) of sub-section (2) of section 8;
(e) any other matter which is required to be, or may be, prescribed, or in respect of which provision is to be or may be made by rules.
(3) Every rule made by the Central Government 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 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.