Bare Act
The Lakshadweep Open Places (Prevention of Defacement) Regulation, 2022
The Lakshadweep Open Places (Prevention of Defacement) Regulation, 2022, aims to maintain the cleanliness and aesthetic integrity of public spaces in the Union territory of Lakshadweep. It prohibits the display of objectionable advertisements and unauthorized defacement of public or private property visible to the public. The law empowers the Administrator to designate specific areas where activities like spitting, urinating, or unauthorized pasting of posters are strictly banned. It establishes penalties for violations, including fines and imprisonment, and makes these offences cognizable. This regulation ensures that public and private property remains free from unauthorized markings, protecting the visual environment for all residents.
- 1. Short title, extent and commencement
- 2. Definitions
- 3. No person to affix, inscribe or exhibit any objectionable advertisement, etc., in any place open to public view
- 4. Administrator to specify by notification any area where no person shall deface any place open to public view
- 5. Penalty for defacement by objectionable advertisements
- 6. Penalty for unauthorised defacement by advertisements
- 7. Penalty for contravention of notification issued under section 4
- 8. Punishment of abettors
- 9. Burden of proof in certain cases
- 10. Offences by companies
- 11. Offences under Act to be cognizable
- 12. Indemnity
- 13. Power of Administrator to erase writing, etc
- 14. Other laws not affected
- 15. Power to make rules
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