Power to make rules for regulating traffic and preserving order in public places, etc.

(1) The District Magistrate may make rules,- (a) with a view to preventing danger, obstruction or inconvenience to the public, for regulating traffic of all kinds in streets and public places, and the use of streets and public places by persons- (i) riding, driving, cycling or walking; or (ii) leading or accompanying cattle; (b) for regulating the conditions under which vehicles may remain standing in streets and public places, and the use of streets as halting places for vehicles or cattle; (c) for prescribing the number and position of lights to be used on vehicles in streets and the hours between which such lights shall be used; (d) for licensing, controlling or, in order to prevent the obstruction, inconvenience, annoyance, risk, danger or injury that may be caused to the residents or passengers in the vicinity, prohibiting the playing of music, the beating of drums, tom-toms or other instruments, the blowing or sounding of horns or other noisy instruments and the use of sound amplifiers in or near streets or public places; (e) for regulating the conduct, behaviour or action of persons constituting assemblies and processions on or along the streets and prescribing in the case of processions, the routes by which, the order in which and the times at which, the same may pass: (f) (i) for licensing or otherwise controlling places of public amusement or entertainment: (ii) for prohibiting the keeping of places of public amusement or entertainment or assembly, in order to prevent obstruction, inconvenience, annoyance, risk, danger or injury to the residents or passengers in the vicinity; (iii) for regulating the means of entrance and exit at places of public amusement or entertainment or assembly, and providing for the maintenance of public safety and the prevention of disturbance thereat; (g) for prescribing the procedure for making an application for the grant of a licence or permission required under this Regulation and the levy of fees therefor: Provided that nothing in this section and no licence granted under any rule made thereunder shall in any way affect the provisions of the Explosives Act, 1884, or of the Arms Act, 1959, or of any rules made under them, or the liability of any person thereunder: Provided further that any action taken under the rules made under this section or the grant of a licence made under such rules shall be subject to the control and supervision of the Chief Commissioner: Provided also that the power to make rules under this sub-section except under clauses (a) and (b) thereof shall be subject to the previous sanction of the Chief Commissioner. (2) The power to make rules under this section shall be subject to the condition of the rules being made after previous publication, and every rule made under this section shall be published in the Official Gazette and in the locality affected thereby by affixing copies thereof in conspicuous places near to the building, structure, work or place as the case may be, to which the same specially relates, or by proclaiming the same by the beating of drum or by advertising the same in such local newspapers in English, or in the local language, as the District Magistrate may deem fit or by any two or more of these or any other means he may think suitable: Provided that any such rules may be made without previous publication, if the District Magistrate is satisfied that circumstances exist which render it necessary that such rules should be brought into force at once. (3) Notwithstanding anything hereinbefore contained in this section or which may be contained in any rules made thereunder, it shall always be lawful for the competent authority under the said rules to refuse a licence for, or to prohibit the keeping of any place of public amusement or entertainment by a person of notoriously bad character. (4) It shall be the duty of all persons concerned to conform to any rule duly made as aforesaid so long as the same shall be in operation.