Power to make rules

The Government may, by notification in the official Gazette, make rules:-(a) prescribing the terms, condition and restriction, if any, subject to which licenses may be granted under this Act; (b) providing for the regulation of cinematograph exhibitions for securing the public safety; (c) prescribing the time within which and the conditions subject to which an appeal under subsection (3) of section 5 (and such section (4) of section 7A) may be preferred. (i) Before granting or renewing a three years licence the licensing authority shall within a period of seven days of the receipt of the application of the licensee,- (a) call upon the Executive Engineer to examine the structural features of the building and report within a period of one month whether the rules relating thereto have been duly complied with. (b) call upon the Electric Inspector to examine the cinematograph and the electrical equipment to be used in the building and to report within a period of one month whether they comply with the requirements both of these rules and of the Indian Electricity Act, 1910, and of such of the rules made thereunder as are applicable, whether all reasonable precautions have been taken to protect spectators and employees from electric shock and to prevent the introduction of fire into the building through the use of electrical equipment, and whether the prescribed fire-extinguishing appliances have been provided, are in working order and suitable for the purpose for which they are intended. (ii) Defects revealed by such inspections shall be brought to the notice of the applicant or licensee and of the licensing authority, who may refuse to grant or renew the licence unless and until they are remedied to his satisfaction. At least 48 hours before any film is exhibited, the licensee shall supply a synopsis of the contents of the film to the District Magistrate of the District in which the place licensed under the Act is situated and the synopsis shall indicate on its title page whether the film has been granted 'U' or 'A' certificate; Provided that the District Magistrate may, for reasons to be recorded in writing, relax the provisions of this cause and accept in lieu of a proper synopsis, a hand bill giving a brief account of the film.