Preamble

ACT 9 OF 2011 THE KERALA PUBLIC WAYS (RESTRICTION OF ASSEMBLIES AND PROCESSIONS) ACT, 2011 *

An Act, to provide for the protection of public ways for unobstructed movement by the public and for imposition of reasonable restrictions on the rights of any section of the public to assemble and collectively move thereon and to regulate procession through public ways and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.

Preamble.—WHEREAS, it is expedient to provide for the protection of public ways for unobstructed movement by the public;

AND WHEREAS, it is necessary to impose reasonable restrictions on the rights of any section of the public to assemble or move collectively on any public way;

AND WHEREAS, it is necessary to regulate procession through public ways and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto;

BE it enacted in the Sixty-second year of the Republic of India as follows:—