power to make rules 14, (1) the central government may, by notification in the official gazette and subject to the conditions of previous publication, make rules for carrying out the purposes of this act  (2) in particular and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power, such rules may provide for all or any of the following matters, namely:— (a) the duties and powers of the registrar; (5) forms of the memorandum of conversion and the intimation of conversion, the forms and manner in which registers or records required to be kept by or under this act shall be maintained; (c) the custody in which the registers and records are to be kept and the preservation of such registers and records; and (a) provision to enable the registrar to be present if, needed, at the time of actual conversion (3) the central government may, by notification in the official gazette, maintain a list of religious heads, chiefs, priests, missions, recognised teligious authorities, societies, etc, in the state as well as community organisations, social institutions or bodies of recognised castes, setcs, faiths or communities to whom a copy of memorandum of conversion is to be sent as provided under sub-section (4) of section 6 (4) every rule, made under this act shall be laid, as soon as may be after it is made, before each house of parliament while it is in session, for a total period of thirty days which may be comprised in one session or in two or more successive sessions, and if, before the expiry of the session immediately following the session or the successive sessions aforesaid, both houses agree in making any modification in the rule or both houses agree that the rule should not be made, the rule shall, from the date of publication of a notification in the official gazette of such decision, have effect only in such modified form or be of no effect, as the case may be; so, however, that any such modification or annulment shall be without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done or omitted to be done under that rule  statement of objects and reasonsthe compulsory registration of religious conversions bill, 2005 has been brought forward for the purpose of registering all the religious conversions in the country such a record or statistics of conversions would be of a great value for many purposes, such as at the time of census, social work, research, etc further, the bill serves another valuable purpose viz, it will give the person seeking conversion a sufficient time to exercise his free will and take a voluntary decision the bill does not propose to interfere in any way with the right of every citizen to choose his own religion thus, the bill is of great social importance and, therefore, necessary in larger public interest in recent times, religious conversions have taken place on "mass scale" under circumstances which leave doubts about those conversions being not voluntary nor out of free will nor a genuine change of faith such incidents can become a major problem of law and order or communal hatred or religious conflicts the bill gives full right to every individual to choose his own religion and also sets out a method for registering it and make it foolproof against any undue compulsion like financial, social, political, domestic or educational, or inducement like job or any other such benefits and enticements this bill will thus, if enacted, serve a great social purpose and the current need of the time in the country new delhi: kashiram rana february 10, 2005  financial memorandumclause 3 of the bill provides for appointment of registrar-general and registrars inthe states and the union territories clause 6(1) provides for maintenance of registers by the registrars appointment of these officers and their offices are likely to involve a recurring expenditure of about rupees fifteen lakh annually from the consolidated fund of india a non-recurring expenditure of about rupees ten lakh is also likely to be involved  memorandum regarding delegated legislationclause 14 of the bill empowers the government to make rules for carrying out the purposes of this bill and in particular in regard to certain matters which include the duties and powers of the registrar, the forms of memorandum of conversion and the intimation of conversion, the forms and manner in which registers or records are required to be maintained, the custody in which the registers and records are kept, and the provision to enable the registrar to be present at the time of actual conversion the matters in respect of which such tules may be made are matters of procedure or administrative details the delegation of legislative power is thus of a normal character