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Section 78: Power of State Government to make rules
- (1) Subject to the other provisions of this Act, the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, make rules for carrying out the purposes of this Act.
- (2) Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power, such rules may provide for all or any of the following matters, namely:–
- (a) the conditions and the manner in which narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances shall be supplied for medical necessity to the addicts registered with the State Government and others under sub-section (1) of section 71;
- (b) the establishment, appointment, maintenance, management, superintendence of centres established under sub-section (1) of section 71 and appointment, training, powers and duties of persons employed in such centres;
- (c) any other matter which is to be, or may be, prescribed.
- (3) Every rule made by a State Government under this Act shall be laid, as soon as may be after it is made, before the Legislature of that State.
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