THE ADMINISTRATORS - GENERAL ACT, 1963
3. Appointment of Administrator General.-(1) The State Government shall appoint an Administrator - General for the State:
Provided that nothing herein contained shall be deemed to bar the appointment of the same person as Administrator - General for two or more States.
(2) No person shall be appointed to the office of Administrator - General unless he has been for at least -
(a) seven years an advocate; or
(b) seven years an attorney of a High Court; or
(c) ten years a member of the judicial service of a State; or
(d) five years a Deputy Administrator - General.
62. Power of State Government to make rules.-(1) The State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, make rules for carrying out the purposes of this Act, and for regulating the proceedings of the Administrator - General.
(2) In particular, and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power, such rules may provide for -
(a) the accounts to be kept by the Administrator - General and the audit and
inspection thereof;
(b) the safe custody, deposit and investment of assets and securities which
come into the hands of the Administrator - General;
(c) the remittance of sums of money in the hands of the Administrator -
General in cases in which such remittances are required;
(d) subject to the provisions of this Act, the fees to be paid under this Act and
the collection and accounting for any such fees;
(e) the statements,schedules and other documents to be submitted to the State
Government or to any other authority by the Administrator - General and
publication thereof;
(f) the realisation of the cost of preparing any such statements, schedules or
other documents ;
(g) the manner in which and the person by whom the costs of and incidental to
any audit under the provisions of this Act are to be determined and
defrayed;
(h) the manner in which summonses issued under this Act are to be served and the pay
ment of expenses of any person summoned or examined under the provisions of this
Act, and of any expenditure incidental to such examination ; and
(i) any other matter which is required to be, or prescribed under this Act.
(3) Every rule made by the State Government under this Act shall be laid, as soon as may be after it is made before the State Legislature.
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