Section 16. Power to make rules

16. Power to make rules. —(1) The Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, make rules for carrying out the provisions of this Act. (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 Group shall be constituted and the terms and conditions of service of its members under sub-section (2) of section 4; (b) the authorities to be prescribed under section 8, sub-section (1) of section 10 and section 11; (c) the nature of the communication or publication under clause (c) of sub-section (1) of section 10; (d) the purposes, other than political purposes, for which a person subject to this Act shall not participate in, or address, any meeting or take part in any demonstration under sub-section (2) of section 10; (e) the persons who shall be members of the Board under sub-section (2) of section 12; (f) any other matter which has to be, or may be, prescribed. — 17. Laying of orders and rules. Every order issued under section 13 and every rule made under section 16 shall be laid, as soon as may be after it is issued or 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 order or the rule or both Houses agree that the order or rule should not be made, the order or 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 order or rule.