The Andhra Pradesh Public Safety (Measures) Enforcement Act, 2013
The Andhra Pradesh Public Safety (Measures) Enforcement Act, 2013
This Act requires business and public venues in major municipal areas of Andhra Pradesh hosting crowds of one hundred or more people to install and maintain safety measures. Specifically, establishment owners must implement physical access controls and security cameras that store video footage for thirty days. This matters because it shifts the responsibility of public security directly onto operators of commercial, educational, and religious spaces to protect citizens. Police inspectors can audit these venues without notice, and failure to comply results in mounting fines or temporary closure of the premises, ensuring consistent security monitoring across busy urban centers in India.
- 0. Preamble
- 1. Short title, extent and commencement
- 2. Definitions - In this Act unless the context otherwise requires,-
- 3. Liability to provide Public Safety Measures
- 4. Government.
- 5. Powers of Inspectors of Police to inspect premises- The Inspector of
- 6. Failure to provide Public Safety Measures
- 7. Protection of action taken in good faith
- 8. Savings- The provisions of this Act shall be in addition to and not in
- 9. Power to make rules
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