law: Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1960
  38. Power to make rules. -
  (1) The Central Government may, by
  
  notification in the official Gazette, and subject to the condition of previous
  
  publication, make rules to carry out the purposes of this Act.
  (2) In particular and without prejudice to the
  
  generality of the foregoing power, the Central Government may make rules
  
  providing for all or any of the following matters, namely:-
  (a) the terms and
  
  conditions of service of members of the Board, the allowances payable to them
  
  and the manner in which they may exercise their power and discharge their
  
  functions;
  (b) the maximum load
  
  (including any load occasioned by the weight of passengers ) to be carried or
  
  drawn by any animal;
  (c) the conditions to
  
  be observed for preventing the over crowding of animals;
  (d) the period during which,
  
  and the hours between which, any class of animals shall not be used for draught
  
  purposes;
  (e) prohibiting the
  
  use of any bit or harness involving cruelty to animals;
  (f) requiring persons
  
  carrying on the business of a farrier to be licensed and registered by such
  
  authority as may be prescribed and levying a fee for the purpose;
  (g) the precautions to
  
  be taken in the capture of animals for purpose of sale, export or for any other
  
  purpose, and the different appliances or devices that may alone be used for the
  
  purpose; and the licensing of such capture and the levying of fees for such
  
  licenses
  (h) the precautions to
  
  be taken in the transport of animals, whether by rail, road, inland waterway,
  
  sea or air and the manner in which and the cages or other receptacles in which
  
  they may be so transported
  (i) requiring persons
  
  owning or in charge of premises in which animals are kept or milked to register
  
  such premises, to comply with such conditions as may be laid down in relation
  
  to the boundary walls or surrounding if such premises, to permit their
  
  inspection for the purpose of ascertaining whether any offence under this Act
  
  is being, or has been, committed therein and to expose in such premises copies
  
  of section 12 in a language or language commonly understood in the locality;
  (j) the form in which
  
  applications for registration under Chapter V may be made, the particulars to
  
  be contained therein, the fees payable for such registration and the
  
  authorities to whom such applications may be made;
  (k) the purpose to
  
  which fines realized under this Act may by applied, including such purposes as
  
  the maintenance of infirmaries, pinjrapoles and veterinary hospitals;
  (l) any other matter
  
  which has to be, or may be, prescribed.
  (3) If any person contravenes, or abets the
  
  contravention of, any rules made under this section, he shall be punishable
  
  with fine which may extend to one hundred rupees, or with imprisonment for a
  
  term which may extend to three months, or with both.
  (4) Every rule made by the Central Government
  
  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 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 such modification or annulment shall be without
  
  prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under that rule.