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Section 10

All officers appointed or authorized to act under this Act shall be deemed to be public servants within the meaning of section 21 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860.

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10. All officers appointed or authorized to act under this Act shall be deemed to be public servants within the meaning of section 21 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860. (1) The State Government may, by notification in the official Gazette, make rules for carrying out the purpose of this Act. In particular and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing powers such rules may provide— (a) the period within which a relative may claim the dead body of a deceased person ; (b) the period after which the dead body of a deceased person shall be deemed to be unclaimed ; (c) the procedure for the disposal of an unclaimed dead body under section 5 ; (d) the conditions under which institutions may be recognized for the purposes of sub-sections (1) and (2) of section 5; (e) the manner in which an unclaimed dead body be preserved from decay ; (f) the procedure of proceedings under section 6 ; and (g) the matters which are to be and may be prescribed. (3) (a) All rules made under this Act shall be published in the official Gazette, and shall, unless some other date is appointed, come into force on the date of such publication. (b) All rules made under this Act shall, as soon as may be after they are made, be laid before the Legislature for 14 days and shall be subject to such modifications as the Legislature may make therein.