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- (56) the preparation of any scheme of defence service or any other service connected with the defence of India and requiring any person or class of persons to comply with such Scheme.
- (57) the eviction of unauthorised occupants from such pubHe premises [as defined in the Public Premises (Eviction of Unauthorised Occupants) Act, 195832 of 1958.] as are, in the opinion of the Central Government, required for the purposes connected with the defence of India and civil defence, the public safety or interest, the efficient conduct of military operations or the maintenance of supplies and services essential to the life of the community.
(3) The rules made under sub-section (1) may further-—
- (i) provide for the arrest and trial of persona contravening any of the rules or any order issued thereunder;
- (ii) provide that any contravention of, or any attempt to contravene, or any abetment of, or any attempt to abet, the contravention of any of the provisions of the rules or any order issued under any such provision, shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to seven years, or with fine, or with both;
- (iii) provide for the seizure, detention and forfeiture of any property in respect of which such contravention, attempt or abetment as is referred to in clause (ii) has been committed and for the adjudication of such forfeiture whether by a court or by any other authority;
- (iv) confer powers and impose duties—
- (a) upon the Central Government or officers and authorities of the Central Government as respects any matter, notwithstanding that the matter is one in respect of which the State Legislature has power to make laws; and
- (b) upon any State Government or officers and authorities of any State Government as respects any matter, notwithstanding that the matter is one in respect of which the State Legislature has no power to make laws;
- (v) prescribe the duties and powers of public servants and other persons as regards preventing the contravention of, or securing the observance of, the rules or any order made thereunder;
- (vi) provide for preventing obstruction and deception of, and disobedience to, any person acting, and interference with any notice issued, in pursuance of the rules or any order made thereunder;
