Repealed or not in force · As amended up to 2026-08
CHAPTER VIII.
RULES.
Power of Local Government to make rules.
91. (I) Subject to the control of the Governor General in Council, the Local Government may make rules for all or any of the following purposes, namely:—
(a) to prescribe forms for any proceeding under this Act other than a proceeding before a High Court which is or may hereafter be established under the Indian High Courts Acts, 1861 to 1911;
(b) to prescribe places of detention and regulate the care and treatment of persons detained under section 8 or section 16;
(c) to regulate the confinement, care, treatment and discharge of criminal lunatics;
(d) to regulate the management of asylums and the care and custody of the inmates thereof and their transfer from one asylum to another;
(e) to regulate the transfer of criminal lunatics to asylums;
(f) to prescribe the procedure to be followed by District Courts and Magistrates before a lunatic is sent to any asylum established by Government;
(g) to prescribe the asylums established by Government within the province to which lunatics from any area or any class of lunatics shall be sent;
(h) to prescribe conditions subject to which asylums may be licensed;
(i) save as otherwise provided in this Act, generally to carry into effect the provisions of the Act.
(2) In making any rule under this section, the Local Governments may direct that a breach of it shall
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(Part IV.—Miscellaneous. Chapter VIII.—Rules.
Source: India Code