The Rajasthan Noises Control Act, 1963

Short title, extent, commencement and application. - (1) This Act may be called the Rajasthan Noises Control Act, 1963.

1. (2) It extends to the whole of the State of Rajasthan. (3)This Section and Sections 2 and 9 shall come into force at once.
2. (4) The remaining provisions of this Act shall come into force on such date* and in such areas as the State Government may notify in the Official Gazette, and different dates and different areas in the State may be so notified in respect of different Sections. *Sections 3 to 8 and 10 came into force, w.e.f. 16-1-1976 in the Municipal Area of Sojat, Sadri Bari, sumerpur, Nimbaj, Takhatgarh and Jattaran towns of pall District vide Notification No. S. O. 258/F 11(4)Home-5/75, dated 16-01-1976, published in Rajasthan Gazette, part V-C (II), Extra ordinary, dated 16-01-1976. *Sections 3 to 8 and 10 of this act came into force in the towns Dungargah and Tara nagar of Churu District w.e.f. 26-03-1976, vide Notification No. S. QO. 308/F. 1.(13)(1)Home/Gr.5/76, dated 26-03-1976, published in Rajasthan Gazette, part V-C(1), Extra ordinary, dated 26-03-1976.

In this Act, unless the subject or context otherwise requires, -

1. (i) loud-speaker or sound amplifier means an instrument whereby soft sounds, whether vocal, instrumental or recorded, are augmented.
2. (ii) Public place means a place (including a road, street or way, whether a thoroughfare or not, and a landing place) to which the public have access or have a right to resort or over which the public have a right to pass.

Declaration and prohibition of nocturnal noise. - (1) In any area to which this Section may be applied under sub-section (4) of Section I, the District Magistrate or any other officer empowered by the State Government in this behalf may, by notice given in such manner as may be prescribed and in such other manner as he thinks fit, declare any noises produced during such hours of the night as may be specified in the notice, whether vocally or by a loud-speaker or a sound amplifier or otherwise, which in his opinion, is likely to cause annoyance or serious inconvenience to the public, to be nocturnal noise.

1. (2) Nocturnal noise shall be prohibited by notice given by the District Magistrate or by any other officer empowered by the State Government in this behalf in such manner as may be prescribed and in such other manner as he thinks fit.

No person shall use or plays a loud-speaker or a sound amplifier for broadcasting any speech, sermon, music or radio programme or shall attach the same to any wireless receiving set or gramophone-

1. (a) Within such distance as may be prescribed--
   • (i) From a hospital or from a building in which there is a telephone exchange, or
   • (ii) From any educational institution managed, maintained, recognized or controlled by the State Government or a University established under any law for this time being in force or a local authority. During the hours of working of such institution, or
   • (iii) From any hostel maintained or recognised by the State Government or a University or a local authority when such hostel is in the use of students, or
   • (iv) From a building in which a court or Government office is held during the hours of working of such court or office, or
2. (b) Between the hours of 11 p.m. and 5 a. m. without the permission in writing of the prescribed authority: Provided that nothing in this Section shall apply to the use in a place, other than a public place, of a sound amplifier which is a component part of a wireless apparatus duly licensed under any law for the time being in force.

The District Magistrate or any other person authorized by the State Government 1n this behalf may, on being satisfied that in his opinion it is necessary in the public interest so to do, by an order in writing recording reasons therefore, prohibit noise of any kind whatsoever, including the amplification thereof, in any place and at any time.

Whoever contravenes or attempts to contravene or abets the contravention of the provisions of this Act or acts contrary to any order lawfully made under this Act shall, on fist conviction, be punished with fine which may extend to two hundred and fifty rupees and on second or subsequent conviction be punished with imprisonment of either description which may extend to one month or with fine which may extend to two hundred and fifty rupees or with both.

An offence under this Act shall be cognizable, bailable and triable by a magistrate of the first class.

Power of police to arrest:- It shall be lawful for a police officer not below the rank of a Sub-Inspector to require any person acting contrary to the provisions of this Act or any order lawfully made there-under to abstain from so doing, and in case of refusal or disobedience, to arrest such person as if he has committed a cognizable offence.

1. (1) The State Government may, subject to the condition of previous publication, make rules generally for carrying out the purposes of this Act and in particular, for providing for matters which, under any provision of this Act, may be, or are required to be, prescribed or for which, under such provision, rules may be or are required to be made. (2)AII rules finally made under this Act shall be laid, as soon as may be after they are so made, before the House of this State Legislature while it is in session, for a period of not less than fourteen days which may be comprised in one session or In two successive sessions and, if, before the expiry of the session in which they are so laid or of the session immediately following, the house of the State legislature makes any modification in any of such rules or resolves that any such rule should not be made, such rule shall thereafter have effect only in such modified form or be of no effect, as the case may be, so however that any such modification or annulment shall be without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done there under.

The Ajmer (Sound Amplifiers Control) Act, 1952 (Ajmer Act 3 of 1952) and other corresponding laws in force in any part of the State are hereby repealed.