ADvERTiSEMENTS ACT, m3 (1946 A. D
The Jammu and Kashmir Suppression of Indecent Advertisement Act, 1946
General20037 sections
This Act regulates advertisements printed or written about specific sexual diseases or infirmities, classifying them as indecent. It applies to individuals who affix, stencil, or exhibit this material on walls, public places, latrines, or shop windows. The legislation matters because it empowers authorities to remove these offensive visual displays and punishes offenders with imprisonment or fines, effectively maintaining public order and preventing indecent exposure in public view, even when the material is published by committees with government sanction.
- 1. Short title, extent and commencement
- 2. Interpretation
- 3. Procedure against persons affixing, etc., indecent pictures, printed or written matter
- 4. Proceedings against persons sending others to do the acts punishable under section 3
- 5. Power to seize, remove, deface or destroy pictures or printed or written matter of indecent nature
- 6. Police officer may arrest on view of offence
- 7. Saving
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