law: Payment of Wages Act, 1936
  26.
  
  Rule-making power
  (1)
  
  The State Government may make rules to regulate the procedure to be followed by
  
  the authorities and courts referred to in sections 15 and 17.
  (2)
  
  The State Government may by notification in the Official Gazette make rules for
  
  the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions of this Act.
  (3)
  
  In particular and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power
  
  rules made under sub-section (2) may -
  (a) require the maintenance of such records registers returns and notice
  
  as are necessary for the enforcement of the Act prescribe the form thereof and
  
  the particulars to be entered in such registers or records;
  (b) require the display in a conspicuous place on premises where
  
  employment is carried on of notices specifying rates of wages payable to
  
  persons employed on such premises;
  (c) Provide for the regulate inspection of the weights measures and
  
  weighing machines used by employers in checking or ascertaining the wages of
  
  persons employed by them;
  (d) prescribe the manner of giving notice of the days on which wages
  
  will be paid;
  (e) prescribe the authority competent to approve under sub-section (1)
  
  of section 8 acts and omissions in respect of which fines may be imposed;
  (f) prescribe the procedure for the imposition of fines under section 8
  
  and for making of the deductions referred to in section 10;
  (g) prescribe the conditions subject to which deductions may be made
  
  under the proviso the sub-section (2) of section 9;
  (h) prescribe the authority competent to approve the purposes on which
  
  the proceeds of fines shall be expended;
  ( i ) prescribe the extent to which advances may
  
  be made and the instalments by which they may be recovered with reference to
  
  clause (b) of section 12;
  ( ia ) prescribe the extent to which loans may
  
  be granted and the rate of interest payable thereon with reference to section
  
  12A;  
  ( ib ) prescribe the powers of Inspectors for
  
  the purposes of this Act;  
  (j) regulate the scales of costs which may allowed in proceedings under
  
  this Act;
  (k) prescribe the amount of court-fees payable in respect of any proceedings
  
  under this Act
  (l) prescribe the abstracts to be contained in the notices required by
  
  section 25;
  (la) prescribe the form and manner in which nominations may be made for
  
  the purposes of sub-section (1) of section 25A the cancellation or variation of
  
  any such nomination or the making of any fresh nomination in the event of the
  
  nominee predeceasing the person making nomination and other matters connected
  
  with such nominations;
  (lb) specify the authority with whom amounts required to be deposited
  
  under clause (b) of sub-section (1) of section 25A shall be deposited and the
  
  manner in which such authority shall deal with the amounts deposited with it
  
  under that clause;
  (m) provide for any other matter which is to be or may be
  
  prescribed. 
  (4)
  
  In making any rule under this section the State Government may provide that a
  
  contravention of the rule shall be punishable with fine which may extend to two
  
  hundred rupees.
  (5)
  
  All rules made under this section shall be subject to the condition of previous
  
  publication and the date to be specified under clause (3) of section 23 of the
  
  General Clauses Act 1897 (10 of 1897) shall not be less than three months from
  
  the date on which the draft of the proposed rules was published.
  (6)
  
  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 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 .