law: Prevention of Food Adulteration Act, 1954
  24. Power of the State
  
  Government to make rules. -
  (1) The State
  
  Government may, after consultation with Committee and subject to the condition
  
  of previous publication, make rules for the purpose of giving effect to the
  
  provisions of this Act in i-natters not falling within the purview of Sec. 23.
  (2) In particular, and
  
  without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power, such rules may-
  (a)
  
  Define the powers and duties of the Food (Health) Authority, 1[local authority
  
  and Local (Health) Authority under this Act  2[* * *]:
  (b)
  
  Prescribe the forms of licenses for the manufacture for sale, for the storage,
  
  for the sale and for the distribution of articles of food or any specified
  
  article of food or class of articles of food, the form of' application for such
  
  licenses the conditions subject to which such licenses may be issued, the
  
  authority empowered to issue the same, 3[the fees payable therefor], the
  
  deposit of any sum as security for the performance of the conditions of the
  
  licenses and the circumstances under which such licenses or security 4[may be
  
  suspended, cancelled or forfeited]:
  (c)
  
  Direct a fee to be paid for analyzing any article of food or for any matter,
  
  for which a fee may be prescribed under this Act,
  (d)
  
  Direct that the whole or any part of the fines imposed under this Act shall be
  
  paid to a local authority on realization
  (e)
  
  Provide for the delegation of the powers and functions conferred by this Act on
  
  the State Government or the Food (Health) Authority to subordinate authorities
  
  or to local authorities.
  (3) All rules made by
  
  the State Government under this Act, shall, as soon as possible after they are
  
  made, be laid before the respective State legislatures.
  STATE AMENDMENT
  Maharashtra. -In Sec.
  
  24 o the principal Act, in sub -section (2), in Cl. (d) for the words 
  
  "shall be paid to a local authority on realization", the words "shall, on
  
  realization, be paid either to ct local authority. Or officer of the State
  
  Government is appointed, as the local authority, be credited to the
  
  Consolidated  fund of the State" shall be substituted5.
  1. Subs. by Act 34 of
  
  1976, Sec. 22, for "and local authority".
  2. Certain words
  
  omitted by Act 49 of 1964, Sec. 14 (w.e.f. Ist March 1965).
  3. Subs. by ibid. for
  
  the words "and the fees payable therefor".
  4. Subs. by Act 34 of
  
  1976, Sec. 22, for the words "may be cancelled for forfeited" (w.e.f. Ist April
  
  1976),
  5.Vide Maharashtra Act
  
  (I of 1975) published in the Maharashtra Government Gazette, Pt. IV, dated the
  
  16th October 1975 (w.e.f. 11th April 1977).