Section 44:
Power to make rules.
(1) The Central Government may, by notification, make rules to carry
out the purposes of this Act.
(2) In particular, and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing powers, such rules may
provide for all or any of the following matters, namely:--
(i) the manner of election of members of the Committee under clause (ii) of section 4;
(ii) the terms and conditions of the Chairperson and members under sub-section (2) of section 6;
(iii) the powers and duties of the Chairperson under sub-section (3) of section 7;
(iv) the manner in which the members may be re-nominated under the proviso to sub-section (2)
of section 8;
(v) duties in connection with Haj under clause (ix) of sub-section (1) of section 9;
(vi) the functions of the Chief Executive Officer and the terms and conditions of service of the
Chief Executive Officer and other employees of the Committee under section 16;
(vii) the number of members of a Joint State Committee or of a Committee for Union territory
under the proviso to clause (vi) of sub-section (1) of section 18;
(viii) the manner in which the accounts shall be maintained by the Committee and the State
Committees and the audit of such accounts under section 34;
(ix) issue of Haj Pilgrim Pass under sub-section (1) of section 35;
(x) amendment of the Schedule relating to the zones comprising contiguous States or Union
territories under section 41;
(xi) any other matter which may be prescribed.
(3) Every rule made under this section 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 in which it is so
laid, or the session 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 such modification or
annulment shall be without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under that rule.