Section 7. Offences

7. Offences.— If within a notified area and during any period specified in a notification issued under sub-section (1) of section 3, any person— (a) wilfully obstructs or interferes with the carrying out of seaward artillery practice, or (b) without due authority enters or remains in any camp, or (c) without due authority enters or remains in any area declared to be a danger zone at a time when entry thereto is prohibited, or (d) without due authority interferes with any flag or mark or target or buoy or any apparatus used for the purposes of seaward artillery practice, shall be punishable with fine which may extend to twenty rupees or with imprisonment which may extend to fifteen days, or with both. (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) the manner in which the substance of a notification under section 3 may be published; (b) regulating the use under this Act of the notified area for seaward artillery practice in such manner as to secure the public against danger, and to enable the practice to be carried out with the minimum inconvenience to the inhabitants of the area affected; (c) the minimum rates at which compensation shall be payable under sub-section (3) of section 6, and generally regarding the making of claims for compensation, the procedure to be followed by the authorities granting the compensation, the expeditious settlement of claims and the filling of appeals from original awards of compensation; (d) the principles to be followed in assessing the amount of compensation to be awarded under this Act; (e) any other matter which is required to be, or may be, prescribed. (3) Every rule made 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.]