Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act,1956
Act No : 104
Section :
Power to make rules.
23. Power to make rules. (1) The State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, make rules for carrying out the purposes of this Act. (2), In particular, and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing powers, such rules may provide for- (a) the notification of any place as a public place; (b) the placing in, custody of women and girls released under sub-section (1) of section 10 or for whose safe custody orders have been passed under sub-section (1) of section 17 and their maintenance; (c) the detention and keeping in protective homes of women and girls under sub-section (2) of section 10, sub-section (2) of section 17 and section 19 and their maintenance; 1229 (d) the carrying out of the provisions of section 11 regarding notification' of residence or change of or absence from residence by released convicts; (e) the delegation of authority to appoint the special police officer under sub-section (1) of section 13; (f) the carrying into effect of the provisions of section 18; (g) (i) the establishment, maintenance, management and superintendence of protective homes and the appointment, powers and. duties of persons employed in such homes; (ii) the form in which an application for a licence may be made and the particulars to be contained in such application; (iii) the procedure for the issue or renewal of a licence, the time within which such licence shall be issued or renewed and the procedure to be followed in making a full and complete investigation in respect of an application for a licence; (iv) the form of a licence and the conditions to be specified therein; (v) the manner in which the accounts of a protective home shall be maintained and audited; (vi) the maintenance of registers and statements by a licensee and the form of such registers and statements; (vii) the care, treatment, maintenance, training, instruction, control and discipline of the inmates of protective homes; (viii) the visits to and communication with such inmates; (ix) the temporary detention of women and girls sentenced to detention in protective homes until arrangements are made for sending them to such home (x) the transfer of a woman or girl from one protective home to another; (xi) the transfer in pursuance of an order of the court from a protective home to a prison of a woman or girl found to be incorrigible or exercising bad influence upon other inmates of the protective home and the period of her detention in such prison; (xii) the transfer to a protective home of women or girls sentenced under section 7 or section 8 and the period of their detention in such home; 1230 (xiii) the discharge of inmates from a protective home either absolutely or subject to conditions, and their arrest in the event of breach of such conditions; (xiv) the grant of permission to inmates to absent themselves for short periods; (xv) the inspection of protective homes and other institutions in which women and girls may be kept, detained and maintained; (h) any other matter which has to be, or may be, prescribed. (3) In making any rule under clause (d) or clause (g) of sub- section (2) the State Government may provide that a breach thereof shall be punishable with fine which may extend to two hundred and fifty rupees. (4) All rules made under this Act shall, as soon as may be after they are made, be laid before the State Legislature.
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