Section 17:
Power to make rules.
(1) The Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette,
make rules for carrying out the 1[provisions] of this Act.
(2) In particulars 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 places at which and the manner in which the substance of the notification may be
published under sub -section (3) of section 3;
(b) the time within which and the manner in which the amount of compensation may be deposited
under sub-section (1) of section 11.
(3) Every rule made under this Act shall be laid as soon as may be after it is made before each Houses
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 1[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 .
Notes:
1. Subs. by Act 13 of 1977, s. 10, for "purposes" (w.e.f. 3-2-1977).
2. Subs. by Act 13 of 1977, s. 10, for "before the expiry of the session in which it is so laid or the successive sessions aforesaid"
(w.e.f. 3-2-1977).