DR. AMBEDKAR AND THE HINDU CODE BILL 199
PART IX.—MISCELLANEOUS
138. Power to make rules. —(1) The Provincial Government may make rules to carry out the objects of this Code.
(2) In particular, and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power, such rules may prescribe—
(i) the particulars relating to sacramental marriages which may be entered in the Hindu Sacramental Marriage Register and the manner in which and the circumstances under which such entries shall be made;
(ii) the cases and areas in which particulars of Sacramental marriages shall be compulsorily entered, and the punishment for any contravention thereof;
(iii) the areas for which Marriage Registrars shall be appointed and their duties and functions;
(iv) the manner in which Hindu Sacramental Marriage Register and the Hindu Civil Marriage Notice Books shall be kept and the manner in which notices of marriages under section 12 shall be published:
(v) the manner in which notices of applications under section 21 shall be given:
(vi) the fees payable for the solemnization of any civil marriage or for any other duties to be performed by the Registrar of Marriages:
(vii) the fees payable for the inspection of and for certified copies of, extracts from the Hindu Sacramental Marriage Register and the Hindu Civil Marriage Certificate Book:
(viii) the form in which and the intervals within which copies of entries in the Hindu Sacramental Marriage Register and the Hindu Civil Marriage Certificate Book shall be sent to the Registrar Genral of Births, Deaths and Marriages;
(ix) the particulars to be specified in applications for the recording of adoptions
(x) the fees payable for recording adoptions;
(xi) the form in which the Register of Adoptions shall be maintained; and
(xii) the manner in which copies of entries in the Register of Adoptions may be certified.
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139. Amendments and repeals. —The enactment mentioned to the third column of the First Schedule shall be amended to the extent specified in the fourth column thereof, and the enactments mentioned in the third column of the Second Schedule shall be repealed to the extent specified in the fourth column thereof.
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