law: Water (Prevention & Control of Pollution) Cess Act, 1977
  17. Power to make rules
  (1) The Central Government may make rules for
  
  carrying out the purposes of this Act.
  (2) Without prejudice to the generality of the
  
  foregoing power, such rules may provide for all or any of the following
  
  matters, namely,-
  (a) the standards of
  
  the meters to be affixed and the places at which such meters are to be affixed
  
  under sub-section (1) of section 4;
  (b) the returns to be
  
  furnished under section 5, the form in which and the intervals at which such
  
  returns are to be furnished, the particulars which such returns shall contain
  
  and the officer or authority to whom or which such returns shall be furnished;
  (c) the manner in
  
  which and the time within which the cess collected shall be paid to the Central
  
  Government under sub-section (4) of section 6;
  (d) the date from which
  
  any person or local authority liable to pay cess shall be entitled to the
  
  rebate 1[and the maximum quantity of water in excess of consumption whereof any
  
  person or local authority shall not be entitled to the rebate];
  (e) the powers which
  
  may be exercised by the officer or authority under section 9;
  (f) the authority
  
  which may impose penalty under section 11;
  (g) the authority to
  
  which an appeal may be filed under sub-section (1) of section 13 and the time
  
  within which and the form and manner in which such appeal may be filed;
  (h) the fees which
  
  shall accompany an appeal under sub-section (2) of section 13; and
  (i) any other matter
  
  which has to be or may be prescribed.
  (3) Every rule made under this Act, 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 on 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.