The Rajasthan Dramatic Performances and Entertainments Ordinance, 1949
The Rajasthan Dramatic Performances and Entertainments Ordinance, 1949
This 1949 Ordinance regulates public entertainment and dramatic performances in Rajasthan, which include plays, circuses, carnivals, and competitive sports. It applies to venue owners, event organizers, performing artists, and individual spectators. It is significant because it grants local magistrates sweeping powers to censor, license, or ban any public show they deem scandalous, defamatory, dangerous, or politically sensitive. Violators face severe penalties of imprisonment, fines, and the police seizure of their staging equipment. While exempting traditional religious festival performances like Raslila, this ordinance acts as a powerful censorship tool, restricting public expression by placing entertainment directly under strict government control.
- 1. Short title, extent and commencement
- 2. Definitions
- 3. Power to prohibit certain dramatic performances and entertainment
- 4. Power to prohibit certain dramatic performances and entertainment
- 5. Power to notify order
- 6. Penalty for disobeying prohibition
- 7. Power to call for information
- 8. Power to grant warrant to police to enter and arrest and seize
- 9. Saving of prosecution under Penal Code Sections 124A and 294
- 10. Power to prohibit dramatic performance and entertainment except under licence
- 11. Power to make rule
- 12. Exclusion of certain performances and entertainments
- 13. Power to delegate
- 14. Appeal
- 15. ....
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