law: Working Journalists and Other Newspaper Employees (Conditions of Service) and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1955
  20.Power to make rules. -
  (l)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 all or any of the
  
  following matters, namely:
  (a)Payment of gratuity
  
  to working journalists-,
  (b)Hours of work of
  
  working journalists.
  (c)Holidays, earned
  
  leave, leave on medical certificate, casual leave or any other kind of leave
  
  admissible to working journalist
  1[(d)The procedure to
  
  be followed by the Board 2[or, as the case may be, the Tribunal] in the
  
  discharge of its functions under this Act;
  (e)The form of
  
  nominations, and the manner in which nominations may be made;
  (f)The manner in which
  
  an person may be appointed for the purposes of subsection (3) of Sec. 5-A;
  (g)The variation or
  
  cancellation of nominations;
  (h)The manner of
  
  giving notice under Cl. (a) of subsection (2) of Sec. 12;
  (i)The registers,
  
  records and muster-rolls to be prepared and maintained by newspaper
  
  establishments, the forms in which they should be prepared and n maintained,
  
  and the particulars to be entered therein;
  (j)The powers that may
  
  be exercised by an Inspector;
  (k)Any other matter which
  
  has to be, or may be, prescribed.]
  3[(3)Every rule made under his 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 4[or in two or more successive sessions,] and if before the
  
  expiry of the Session 4[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 any thing, previously done under that
  
  rule.]
  1. Subs. by Act 65 of 1962, sec. 9, for Cls.
  
  (d), (e), and (n (w.e.f. 15th January, 1963).
  2. Savitri v. Govind Singh Rawat, 1986 (1) Cr.
  
  L.C. 62 at. P. (S.C.).
  3. Subs. by Act 65 of 1962, Sec. 9 (w.e.f.
  
  15th January, 1963).
  4. Subs. by Act 60 of 1974, Sec.6.