Section 38. Power to make Rules

38. (1) The 1[State Government] may, after previous publication, makes rules for carrying out the purposes of this Act. (2) In particular and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing provision, the 1[State Government] may make 2[rules] for all or any of the following matters ; (a) the procedure to be followed in submitting an application to the 1[State Government] under this Act ; (b) the form and contents of such application and the documents, if any, by which such application shall be accompanied ; (c) the issue and service of notices ; (d) the form of any declaration to be made under this Act ; (e) the maintenance and correction of the list mentioned in section 7 ; (f) the procedure to be adopted by the Collector 3[or the Deputy Commissioner] under sub-section (1) of section 30 ; (g) the payment or recovery of any expenses incurred in, or in connection with, proceeding held under this Act ; (h) the period or periods for which and the restrictions and conditions subject to which, leases of the nature mentioned in the proviso to sub-section (1) of section 34 may be sanctioned by the Collector 3[or the Deputy Commissioner] ; (i) the circumstances in which and the conditions subject to which, a premium or fine may be taken under sub-section (4) of section 34 on a lease, other than a lease for an agricultural purpose ; (j) the method in which the land revenue deemed to be payable on revenue-free land upon which land revenue has not been nominally assessed shall be determined. (3) Rules made under clause (e) of sub-section (2) may require a report to be made by any person becoming or ceasing to be an estateholder to such authority as may be prescribed therein, and may prescribed a penalty for failure to make such report and the mode in which such penalty may be recovered.