The Jammu and Kashmir Prize Competitions Act, 1956
The Jammu and Kashmir Prize Competitions Act, 1956
The Jammu and Kashmir Prize Competitions Act, 1956, regulates prize-based contests involving puzzles, crosswords, or similar arrangements of words and figures. The Act strictly prohibits any competition where the total monthly prize value exceeds five hundred rupees. For smaller competitions where the prize value is five hundred rupees or less, promoters must obtain a government license. The Act mandates that promoters maintain accurate financial accounts and empowers authorities to inspect premises and seize materials. It imposes criminal penalties for unauthorized competitions or fraudulent record-keeping, ensuring that prize schemes operate transparently and do not devolve into unregulated gambling.
- 1. Short title, extent and commencement
- 2. Definitions
- 3. Interpretation
- 4. Prohibition of prize competitions where the prize offered exceeds one thousand rupees a month
- 5. Licensing of prize competitions where offered does not exceed one thousand rupees a month
- 6. Licences of prize competitions
- 7. Promoters of prize competitions to keep accounts and submit the same to the licensing authority
- 8. Power to cancel or suspend licence
- 9. Penalty for promoting or conducting any prize competition in contravention of the provisions of sections 4 and 5
- 10. Penalty for failure to keep and submit accounts
- 11. Penalty for other offences in connection with prize competitions
- 12. Offences by corporation
- 13. Power of licensing authority to call for and inspect accounts and documents
- 14. Power of entry and search
- 15. Forfeiture of newspapers and publications containing prize competitions
- 16. Appeal
- 17. Licensing authority and other officers to be public servants
- 18. Jurisdiction to try offences
- 19. Protection of action taken under this Act
- 20. Power to make rules
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