law: Citizenship Act, 1955 
  18. Power to make rules 
  (1) The Central Government may, by notification in the Official
  
  Gazette, make rules to carry out the purposes of this Act.
  (2) In particular and without prejudice to the generality of the
  
  foregoing power, such rules may provide for- 
  (a) the registration of anything required or
  
  authorized under this Act to be registered, and the conditions and restrictions
  
  in regard to such registration;
  (b) the forms to be used and the registers to
  
  be maintained under this Act;
  (c) the administration and taking of oaths of
  
  allegiance under this Act, and the time within which, and the manner in which,
  
  such oaths shall be taken and recorded;
  (d) the giving of any notice required or
  
  authorized to be given by any person under this Act;
  (e) the cancellation of the registration of,
  
  and the cancellation and amendment of certificates of naturalization relating
  
  to, persons deprived of citizenship under this Act, and the delivering up of
  
  such certificates for those purposes;
  (ee) the manner and form in which and the
  
  authority to whom declarations referred to in clauses (a) and (b) of
  
  sub-section (6) of section 6A shall be submitted and other matters connected
  
  with such declarations;
  (f) the registration at Indian consulates of
  
  the births and deaths of persons of any class or description born or dying
  
  outside India;
  (g) the levy and collection of fees in respect
  
  of applications, registrations, declarations and certificates under this Act,
  
  in respect of the taking of an oath of allegiance, and in respect of the supply
  
  of certified or other copies of documents;
  (h) the authority to determine the question of
  
  acquisition of citizenship of another country, the procedure to be followed by
  
  such authority and rules of evidence relating to such cases;
  (i) the procedure to be followed by the
  
  committees of inquiry appointed under section 10 and the conferment on such
  
  committees of any of the powers, rights and privileges of civil courts;
  (j) the manner in which applications for
  
  revision may be made and the procedure to be followed by the Central Government
  
  in dealing with such applications; and
  (k) any other matter which is to be, or may
  
  be, prescribed under the Act.
  (3) In making any rule under this section, the Central
  
  Government may provide that breach thereof shall be punishable with fine which
  
  may extend to one thousand rupees.
  (4) Every rule made 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 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 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.