Section 458:
Provisions with respect to rules and regulations.
(1) All rules and regulations made
under this Act shall be published in the Official Gazette.
(2) In making a rule or regulation under this Act, the Central Government may direct that a breach
thereof shall be punishable--
(a) in the case of a rule made under 1[section 331 or section 344-I] with imprisonment which
may extend to two years, or with fine which may extend to ten thousand rupees, or with both;
(b) in the case of any other rule or regulation made under any other provision of this Act, with
fine which may extend to one thousand rupees;and in either case if the breach is a continuing one, with further fine which may extend to fifty rupees
for every day after the first during which the breach continues.
2[(3) Every rule or regulation 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 3[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 the regulations, or both Houses agree that the rule or regulation
should not be made, the rule or regulation 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 or regulation.]
Notes:
1 Subs. by s. 38, ibid., for "section 331" (w.e.f.28-5-1966).
2 Subs. by s. 38, ibid., for sub-section (3) (w.e.f.28-5-1966).
3 Subs. by Act 69 of 1976, s. 26, for "two successive sessions and if before the expiry of the session in which it is so
laid or the session immediately following"(w.e.f.1-12-1976).