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A State legal services body wishes to prescribe the form and manner in which the Mediation Council of India must prepare its annual statement of accounts, including the balance sheet. Under the Mediation Act, 2023, which authority prescribes this by making a rule?

The Central Government prescribes the form and manner of the Council's annual statement of accounts and balance sheet. It does so by making rules through notification under its general and specific rule-making power. The Council makes regulations only on matters listed for it, and accounts format is not among them.

  1. AThe Mediation Council of India, by regulations with its own approval alone
  2. BThe Central Government, by notification of rulesCorrect
  3. CEach State Government, by its own guidelines
  4. DThe court in which mediation is pending, by order

Explanation

The Act empowers the Central Government to make rules by notification. These rules may cover the form and manner of the annual statement of accounts, including the balance sheet, of the Council. The Council's regulation power does not cover this matter, so the Council option is wrong.

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