authorized to exercise any function by or under this Act; (c) fixing the period of service for members of the force; (d) regulating the award of minor punishment under section 11, and providing for appeals from, or the revision of, orders under that section, or the remission of fines imposed under that section, and the remission of deductions made under section 13; (e) regulating the several or collective liability of member of the force in the case of the loss or theft of weapons and ammunition; (f) for the disposal of criminal cases arising under this Act and for specifying the prison in which a person convicted in any such case may be confined. (3) 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