Section 16 of The JAMMU AND KASHMIR PLANT DISEASES AND PESTS ACT, 1973

(1)The Government may, after previous publication, make rules for carrying out the purposes of this Act.

1. (2)In particular 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 manner in which any notice or order issued or made under this Act is to be served or the conditions under which every such notice or order shall be deemed to have been served ;
   1. (b)the form in which an appeal under sub-section (1) or sub-section (2) of section 9 shall be filed ;
   2. (c)the class of officers who are bound to make a report as required under section 12 ; and
   3. (d)all other matters expressly required or allowed by this Act to be prescribed.
2. (3)Rules made under this Act may provide that a contravention of any such rule shall be punishable with fine which may extend to fifty rupees.
3. (4)Every rule made by the Government under this Act shall be laid, as soon as may be, after it is made, before 1 [Legislative Assembly of the Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir] while it is in session and if, before the expiry of the session in which it is so laid 2 [both Houses] agree in making any modification in the rule or 2 [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.